Additions to the Bliss of posts gone by

Phew.  Work is a lot of, well, work.

As promised, a photo update:

The wonderful Debbie Bliss graciously agreed to not only pose for a photo, but to hold the Diamante prototype while doing so.  Debbie and I talked about Knitty, which she described as "very nice".  She also mentioned what wonderful things she'd heard about its intrepid editor.  She said she was planning to take a peek at my pattern online, which made me want to faint.  I'm a bit of a ninny that way.

The prototype has now made a home at Baadeck Yarns, where I hope it will help Pat sell a zillion skeins of Opal solids.

The Baadeck pinks knit up just beautifully into a pair of sock for a friend's mom, who recently had surgery for breast cancer.  I borrowed heavily from the concepts of a pattern here.

The details?

• Fleece artist merino sock, magic loop on 2.5 mm, 32-inch Knitpicks circular
• Top-down construction
• Picot cuff
• Lace front and back (but modified from the lace in the pattern)
• Ribbon motif on sides - pattern had this on a purl background, which I changed to purl border and stockinette background
• Eye of partridge heel
• Stockinette foot
• Short row toe

More posts to follow.  We have a lot of catching up to do!

Comments

[maxly]

Thank you for posting your beautiful sock! And the link to the original. i just walked in the Dallas www.the3day.org and will make some of these for people who donated to me.

maxly