Some experiments just don’t work out. Take for example, the Waterfall Rib from Sensational Knitted Socks that I tried on some Opal sock yarn. See?
Just doesn’t work.
So I tried again.
I’m not sure this is any better, but I’m going with it. (Chevron Stitch from Sensational Knitted Socks.) Besides, I’m actually enjoying knitting this stitch pattern. Easy to memorize and with interesting increases and decreases.
Then we get to the afterthought or the “fore-thought” heel that is supposed to “form concentric circles of pattern, sometimes called ‘bulls-eye.’”
Do you see it happening?
Yeah. Me neither.
I’m going to live with this too though. I don’t think it’s necessarily a bad thing. This could be an eccentric design feature. Yeah. A design feature.
July 26th, 2007 at 9:54 am
These can be your whicmsical socks – for when you want to flout all the rules and just be, go and do whatever you durn well feel like :)
Whether they thrill your eye or not, your feet are gonna love ‘em!
July 26th, 2007 at 10:06 am
Nope. No bulls-eye. None whatsoever. But they look fine. I like the pattern you’re going with for the leg and foot…and the heel will be fine, too, when it’s cozying up to your own heel in an over air conditioned room. I like the yarn, too.
hugssssss
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July 26th, 2007 at 10:52 am
Can’t tell you how many times I have frogged a sock because I didn’t like a design feature. But when I find one I really like, I knit several pair from it. Slipped-rib stitch, from SKS, has my heart right now. I give you oodles of credit for sticking to it. And sorry, I, too, don’t see the ol’ bullseye.
July 26th, 2007 at 10:55 am
I have LOTS of socks with design features. Sometimes the two socks of a pair with have differening “design features”. It keeps things interesting.
July 26th, 2007 at 11:32 am
You have some great design features in this sock! I think the chevron pattern works wonderfully. Isn’t funny how you just “know” when it doesn’t work? Maybe a bull’s eye heel would have distracted from the pretty chevron pattern and your heel works nicely with it.
July 26th, 2007 at 12:17 pm
Yeah, Opal patterns do that sometimes. I think there’s a magic place to start – I have a pair of socks that are fraternal because one worked in pattern for 3/4 of it (a zig-zag stripe – zebra looking, sorta) then the yarn tangled in my bag and I cut out a piece. From there on, and on the second sock, there was no patterning whatsoever – random streaky blobs.
Ah well, they make great boot socks :)
July 26th, 2007 at 12:27 pm
Definitely a design element. Some yarns are just fussy — they wanna be what they wanna be.
July 26th, 2007 at 3:15 pm
I like the chevron pattern! Sometimes you have to try a few patterns to get to just the right one. And the heel looks nice – great “design feature” :-)
July 26th, 2007 at 3:34 pm
No bulls-eye here. Still, it’s on your feet girl. It can have design elements all it wants as long as it wears well :-) I really like the chevron pattern.
July 27th, 2007 at 7:50 am
Humm a design feature– I kind of like it. Thank goodness you decided to redo that. Hugs
July 27th, 2007 at 12:15 pm
Good thing you dropped the Waterfall idea. It was totally lost in the yarn patterning, which actually works better with the chevron – bullseye or no bullseye :-)
July 27th, 2007 at 1:10 pm
I never bother trying to coax a pattern out of varigated yarn. Too frustrating. Jusst go with the flow here instead :)
July 27th, 2007 at 2:53 pm
say what? bullseye? says who?
i don’t get it.
i have to finish my sockapalooooza socks instead of admiring yours…and your mystery stole!!! that thing is all kinds of gorgeous. :)
July 30th, 2007 at 11:34 am
I like the contrasting heel and the new stitch pattern. That is definitely a busy yarn!