{"id":115,"date":"2008-11-19T14:47:59","date_gmt":"2008-11-19T14:47:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.knitbot.org\/gallery\/?p=115"},"modified":"2015-08-07T14:48:51","modified_gmt":"2015-08-07T14:48:51","slug":"white-birch-fiber-socks-2008","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.knitbot.org\/gallery\/2008\/11\/19\/white-birch-fiber-socks-2008\/","title":{"rendered":"White Birch Fiber Socks (2008)"},"content":{"rendered":"

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\"White<\/a><\/span><\/td>\nPattern:<\/span>\u00a0 Wendy’s Toe-Up\/Cat Bordhi’s Riverbed master pattern for the arch, and Barbara Walker’s “Gothic Lattice” for the ankle patterning.
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\nYarn:<\/span>\u00a0 White Birch Fiber — Summer Grasses
\nMethod:\u00a0<\/span> Hand knit
\nCompleted:<\/span>\u00a0 November 19, 2008.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n

The yarn is quite nice to work with — smooth, and just enough colour variation to be interesting without bad striping or pooling.<\/p>\n

If I had actually swatched with this yarn before knitting, I might not have done an ankle pattern that was so heavily purled.\u00a0 I find the reverse stockinette parts pattern differently (with the colours) than the stockinette, so the ankle looks a little out of place with the main sock.<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n
\"almost<\/a>\"done\"<\/a><\/span><\/td>\nA pair of socks!\u00a0 Caught the first picture while there was still daylight (but the ankle isn’t quite finished).\u00a0 Second picture — under lights in my hotel room.\u00a0 The colour of the first is more true to life.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
\"riverbed<\/a>\"riverbed<\/a><\/span><\/td>\nSee the Riverbed increases — the angled line up the side of the foot; on the sole, it looks like an inserted\u00a0 triangle starting halfway down the foot and broadening towards the heel<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
\"gothic<\/a><\/span><\/td>\nThis shows the Gothic Lattice pattern in some detail.\u00a0 Note the cabling twists.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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