Some years back I caught the Sock Club bug that was going around and joined several - CookieA, Janel Laidman, and the Blue Moon Fiber Arts Rockin' Sock Club. I dropped the clubs for a while, although I did rejoin Janel's and actually kept up with the projects until the last one, when she disappeared due to a family emergency. I tried to rejoin CookieA's sock club, but then she took off for a trip around the world. Last year I rejoined the Rockin' Sock Club on something of a whim. I didn't knit any of the shipments from last year, but decided to rejoin again this year - after pulling out all of the shipments and patterns from last year. This is one of the patterns from last year's first shipment and is a Linen stitch cowl using two variegated skeins.
I had never done Linen stitch, so I swatched using the miniature "emergency" skeins that they include with each of their big skeins. I really liked the resulting fabric. And the colors, well. That is one of the reasons that you join the Blue Moon Fiber Arts Rockin' Sock Club. I think they should start an ad campaign - "The Most Interesting Knitter in the World" - and the tag line would be "I don't always knit socks, but when I do, I knit Socks That Rock. Keep knitting my friends." I started this as something that would be mostly mindless to work on when I didn't have Hale-Bopp to work on, but then, well, things happened, so I haven't made much progress on it. The needle size threw me - a US 9 with fingering weight yarn? I did do a little research to see if I could find anything on picking the right needle size for Linen stitch, but had no luck. I even played around with smaller needles while I was swatching, but decided that the fabric looked best with the larger needle.
Pattern: Morphology by A. Karen Alfke
Yarn: Blue Moon Fiber Arts Socks that Rock Lightweight in Sprinkles and Shannanogins
Needle: US 9 (5.5 mm)
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