That new texture stitch needs a name. I spent way too much time researching the stitch and came up empty.
Here is the sample:
The directions in chart form, in-the-round (top section) and knitted flat (bottom):
This stitch is based on the Dot Stitch charted here:
Suggestions for a name?
I’m sure you’ve heard of the Hans Christian Anderson story The Princess and the Pea. A short recap of the story is that a bedraggled young woman must prove her royal heritage. She sleeps on top of twenty mattresses but has such a fitful night as she can feel a pea through the pile. Thus she must be royalty.
After (almost) finishing the textured socks, I discovered a purl bump right in the middle of the sole. I’m sure we can all relate to a pebble, no matter how small, in our shoe. And how irritating that can be when we walk.
This purl bump would be the equivalent to such a pebble.
Good thing I caught it before I finished the Kitchener stitch. I can just run that stitch down to the offending stitch and use a crochet hook to “knit” back up to the toe edge.
But what I can’t resolve as easily are the twisted stitches in the heel…which are just as noticeable and irritable as the purl bump!
Sigh….
I’m in the process of knitting another pair of socks using the same Berroco Comfort yarn. By knitting with the two different balls of yarn at the same time, the yarn goes much farther. Plus each 100-gram ball consists of 447 yards which is plenty for one pair of socks let alone two.
I knew I wanted to obscure the bold striping pattern again in the Beach House color and try something different from the other eight pairs I knit in the past. I tried Hermione’s Everyday sock pattern and it’s a great pattern but there was not enough texture/mixing up for me with this yarn.
So I played with the knit and purl sequence and came up with this pattern. It might already exist in the textured stitch world but here it is:
The subdued Hari Hari color was used for the odd rounds and Beach House for the even. The striping sequence is still prominent but the texture adds another dimension.
I like it.
If you’ve seen or used this textured stitch and know the name of it, do tell in the comments.
A fox is the school mascot for three of our grandkids so I gravitate towards those pattern charts if I want to knit something for them. These Foxy Friends mitts by Fiona Alice fit the bill and were so quick and easy to knit as I began them Friday evening and finished both mitts by Sunday afternoon.
The worsted weight yarn made for the speed and using the larger needle size for the stranded colorwork helped keep the tension looser.
If I knit these again (and I’m sure I will as three kids can’t/won’t share one pair), I will continue the thumb pattern on the palm side as there will be shorter yarn floats in which fingers could get caught. These mitts are super warm with the double layer of wool used for the fox faces.
Yarns used: Cascade Heather in Jet and Japanese Maple. Brunswick Germantown Knitted Worsted in Ecru. I used less than a fourth skein (I need a yarn scale!!) of each color.
Knitting In Flashes 