Rosemary - Finished!

After finishing up my Purple Haze Tredegar Scarflette, I did work some on my Garnet Cassie Slipover, but I decided to finish up my Rosemary socks.  I cast these on back in June, about four months ago, and I just wanted to get them done.  I finished up the first sock back on September 25 and finished up the second sock on October 2, so one week for one sock.  Of course, these do have a lot of cabling, so they are not as quick a knit as a less ornate sock might be.

The fit is perfect and I’m very happy with how they came out.  These were one of the sock patterns from Janel Laidman’s Knitterati club, from over a decade ago.  She has since pretty much vanished from the knitting scene.  I still have two more sock patterns in this club to knit, and have the yarn caked up and in my sock project bag, and the pattern set up in knitCompanion for the next one that I’m going to do when I’m ready to cast on.

Pattern:  Rosemary by Janel Laidman

Yarn:  Alpha B Yarns Elite B

Needle:  US 1 (2.25 mm)

Rosemary - Sock Two, Foot Done!

I finished up the foot this past Sunday afternoon (and am almost halfway through Chart 2 on the leg), while watching our Sunday line-up of weekly news shows.  Although I have cast on my Garnet Cassie, I decided to focus on this project and get it finished up before I really jumped in to another Cassie Slipover.  When I was working I definitely was a poly knitter, with lots of projects on my needles - typically on the order of two dozen!  Since retiring I have reduced the number of projects down to twelve, and I’m trending toward project monogamy.  That may be due, in part, to my trend towards multi-craftualism.  There is only so much creative energy to go around.  My biggest challenge is that I want to make all the things, and time is finite, even if ambition and imagination are not.  

Pattern:  Rosemary by Janel Laidman

Yarn:  Alpha B Yarn Elite B

Needle:  US 1 (2.25 mm)

Rosemary - One Sock Done!

I have been focusing on this project for the past few days and last night I cast off sock number one.  I did one full repeat of chart 2 on the foot and one full repeat of chart 2 on the leg.  I thought about doing a second repeat on the leg, but given that the ribbing at the top is 24 rows, I decided not to.

The fit is pretty good.  After finishing up sock one I immediately cast on sock two (no second sock syndrome here) and I’m already past the toe increases and working chart 1.

Pattern:  Rosemary by Janel Laidman

Yarn:  Alpha B Yarn Elite B

Needle:  US 1 (2.25 mm)

Rosemary - Foot Done!

I haven’t touched this project since early June, but Saturday evening I pulled it out and started working on it again.  I made it through the rest of Chart 1 and almost to the point where I needed to start the gusset increases Saturday evening, and then made it through the gusset, the heel turn and the heel flap on Sunday.  I did lifted increases for all of my increases, at this point I just need to knit the leg.  I knit all of Chart 1 and one full repeat of Chart 2 on the foot.  I have been using my Lumos neck light when working on this one as well, with the tight gauge and all the cabling it just makes seeing the stitches easier.

Pattern:  Rosemary by Janel Laidman

Yarn:  Alpha B Yarn Elite B

Needle:  US 1 (2.25 mm)

Rosemary - Chart 1 Almost Done

I have been making progress on my Rosemary sock and have almost made it through chart 1.  I am enjoying the knit and the yarn is very nice to work with.  With all the cabling these will definitely be house socks, I don’t think I have any shoes that I could put these socks into.

Pattern:  Rosemary by Janel Laidman

Yarn:  Alpha B Yarn Elite B

Needle:  US 1 (2.25 mm)

Rosemary - Cast On!

One of the skeins in Box F1, which I am working my way through (more or less) is this luscious red skein of Alpha B Yarn by Elite B.  It is 80% Superwash Merino, 10% Cashmere, 10% Nylon, and came to me as part of Janel Laidman’s Knitterati club, so it is a two-fer.  It continues my knitting up of the Knitterati club patterns (at least the sock patterns), and helps me knit up the yarn in Box F1.

As can be seen in the picture, it is knit toe-up, which is a sock construction method that I truly enjoy, although I am not doing any special shaping on the toe.  I used Judy Becker’s magic cast on, as slightly modified by the Sockmatician.  This design has lots of cables.

Pattern:  Rosemary by Janel Laidman

Yarn:  Alpha B Yarn by Elite B

Needle:  US 1 (2.25 mm)