STR Marble socks. Finally!

The STR Marbles socks are finally done!  After frogging, skeining, washing, weighting, drying, and rewinding, I decided to go with simplest possible pattern, but not after a couple more false starts with other patterns.  These are toe-up over 54 stitches with a picot edge.  I made them short, thinking that the picot edge would be tight but, surprisingly,  it's the exact opposite.  The picot seemed appropriate for the girlyness of this colorway.  I think that it's the ever-so-slightly mustard tinge in the yellow that keeps this colorway from being a strictly pastel baby-ish yarn.  Even having just called this yarn girly, Larissa's Baz pulls this colorway off here MORE than perfectly well, don't you think?  SO CUTE.  I wonder if the heavier weight yarn was dyed darker than mine?  His looks a bit more like my jar of old marbles that used to belong to my dad and his brother when they were boys.  Here's what state the Marbles yarn was in before I completely frogged it and started all over again.

I transplanted all of our poppies to new locations last fall and they must still be feeling the shock as they're not blooming AT ALL this year.  I'd seen a small patch of poppies blooming near the highway at an old homestead site and went there one day last week to go pick some but when we arrived we couldn't see them anywhere.  Traipsing through the tall grass we found the holes where someone had recently dug them up.  I'd bet they'll be back again from the remains of the roots in the next year or so, though.  Glancing around we came across a few stray Iris and Dame's Rocket still surviving and blooming here and there, along with a beautiful wild rose.  We picked a few of the iris for a vase at home and a handful of rosebuds and petals to dry.

Comments

[Ana]

I loved the picot edge, it works very well with the yarn. My socks on this yarn turned out darker that yours, yet not as dark as the sweater, I wonder if the yarn has a lot of variation in tone? I liked knitting with it!

[Peggy]

I love the picot edge. Sometimes knitted designs overwhelm the beauty of the yarn. I like the plain sock. It shows off the yarn and the edge is the only interesting detail it needs.

[Michelle]

I too love the picot edge. What a great summer-y sock. I do think that your's is much darker than the linked one. It does look like those marbles.

[shannon]

wow. those look great, s - sorry they have been such a p.i.t.a., but it seems they are worth it, huh? are you a str convert yet?

[larissa]

The socks are lovely! Luscious. And yes, I think the sock yarn took up those colors a lot less, or they did a lighter batch. The yarn I have is superwash, which may account for the darkness. I have 2 skeins of it in Marbles, both different but both much darker than the socks.