Ocean Toes

Flush with victory, I needed to cast on for a new project.  One restriction: the project needed to be NOT ORANGE!  (I love orange, but whew, that was a lot of orange in the last project.)  The solution?  I cast on for the second of my Ocean Toes socks in a nice blue-y purple color.

Pattern: Ocean Toes Socks by Cat Bordhi in New Pathways for Sock Knitters
Yarn: Koigu in P722
Needles: US 2
Time to Knit: Aug 21 - 24 for the second sock, and about a year for both socks!

I had a lot of fun knitting these socks.  The new architecture and the many different charts kept the socks interesting throughout.  About the time I started to get bored with the pattern, it changed into something a little different.  And knit on size 2 needles, they knit up quickly!

I documented the architecture pretty thoroughly in my first post about these socks, so I won't go into it so much here.  I noticed that I wrote that post exactly a year ago today.  Fitting, huh?

PS.  The socks *are* the same size.  The one on the right is just scrunched down a bit.  Why does that always happen?

Comments

[Brenda]

Very pretty! I love that blue. How does the sock fit while worn? Does it stay up?

[Cassy]

Nice. Opposite end of the spectrum.

[stacey]

very neat! I have to make something from that book soon! The toes are beautiful! (something you don't get to say too often!)

[Kim]

Gorgeous! Blue is the perfect antidote to orange. Blue & orange also look great together. All the charts in that book kinda scare me.

[Ariel]

Those toes are awfully pretty! Well, the whole sock is pretty too, but oh those toes!

[Stacey]

These are gorgeous!! I love the way they look slouched!

[leslie]

beautiful.
and i loved the photo with the one scrunched down!!!

[tiennie]

Those are cute!! Socks just don't want to be the same sometimes - stand up straight, slouch, stand up straight, slouch...

[Chrissy]

So pretty! It looks like there are waves in the front. I never wanted to knit that pattern until now.

[Jessica]

They came out great!