Monday, February 02, 2009

Careful, They're Hot!

I finally finished knitting my Firestarter socks and I'm finally happy with them after some wee adjustments.





Pattern: Firestarter by Yarnissima

Pattern available as a free Ravelry download here.

Yarn: Wollmeise Sockenwolle 100% superwash in Campari Orange

Needles: 2.25mm

Mods: After knitting one sock, I ripped it out because I wasn't happy with the way the Wollmeise knit up at 8 stitches to the inch. Instead, I knit them at 10 stitches to the inch and used Judy Becker’s magic cast on starting with 28sts (14 per needle) and increased the stitch count to 72sts using a 2.25mm needle. I then worked 6 pattern repeats for the foot, and changed the rest as follows.

Gusset: Same as pattern.

Heel turn: 10 live w/ 9 wrapped.

Heel flap: Same as pattern.

Leg: same over 72 stitches.

I lucked out, but I don't care. I have some hot feet today, baby!

Knit On...

7 comments:

Dreams of Yarn said...

HOT INDEED!!! Great job, they look fantastic

Unknown said...

Awesome, awesome, awesome!

Lynette said...

that should be hot with two t's - definitely hott!!!

Samantha said...

They are better than awesome!

Anonymous said...

They are really beautyful! I wish I had the patiense to knit two socks....

Anonymous said...

Firestarter socks, eh? Is that just in case the pilot light goes out again? (tee hee!) They're awesome! Super job!

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