{"id":81,"date":"2007-11-14T18:34:32","date_gmt":"2007-11-14T18:34:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.knitbot.org\/gallery\/?p=81"},"modified":"2015-08-06T18:35:54","modified_gmt":"2015-08-06T18:35:54","slug":"seawool-socks-2007","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.knitbot.org\/gallery\/2007\/11\/14\/seawool-socks-2007\/","title":{"rendered":"SeaWool Socks (2007)"},"content":{"rendered":"

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\"SeaWool<\/a><\/span><\/td>\nPattern:<\/span>\u00a0 Wendy’s Toe-Up, using Barbara Walker’s Northern Lights pattern in the ankle
\nYarn:<\/span>\u00a0 Fleece Artist Sea Wool
\nMethod:\u00a0<\/span> Handknit
\nCompleted:<\/span>\u00a0 November 14, 2007.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n

This was my first experience working with Fleece Artist’s Sea Wool — 70% Merino, 30% “sea cell”.\u00a0 It’s lovely stuff:\u00a0 the colours are very vibrant, the fabric is light stretchy, and yet there is a distinct warmth in them.\u00a0 It is a little thicker than some sock yarn, so they are slightly bulky socks.\u00a0 The colour variations are pleasant and subtle enough to be interesting but not “in your face”.<\/p>\n

This is a pretty generic toe-up sock construction, but again I played around by flipping through stitch dictionaries and settling on a Barbara Walker pattern (“Northern Lights”) for the ankle patterning.\u00a0 This has just enough purling and stitch twisting to give the ankle a bit of extra stretchiness.<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n\n
\"Whole<\/a><\/span>
\n<\/a><\/td>\n		A whole sock.\u00a0 Not clear in this picture, but the very top of the ankle is done with 6 rows of pattern of various purls, knits & knit-through-the-back-loops.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
\"AnkleDetail\"<\/a><\/span>
\n<\/a><\/td>\n		Detail of Barbara Walker’s “Northern Lights” pattern on the ankle.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
\"SockPair\"<\/a><\/span><\/td>\nHappy feet!<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
\"Sea<\/a><\/span><\/td>\nFortunately, this skein of Sea Wool had a friend…\u00a0 I see another pair of Sea Wool socks in my future!The yarn is so light-and-yet-warm that I wonder about making a summer jacket with it, if I could ever find enough skeins of one colourway in one place.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

  Pattern:\u00a0 Wendy’s Toe-Up, using Barbara Walker’s Northern Lights pattern in the ankle Yarn:\u00a0 Fleece Artist Sea Wool Method:\u00a0 Handknit Completed:\u00a0 November 14, 2007. This was my first experience working with Fleece Artist’s Sea Wool — 70% Merino, 30% “sea<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":84,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-81","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-knitting"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"http:\/\/www.knitbot.org\/gallery\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/SockOne-sm-thmb.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p7fEfz-1j","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.knitbot.org\/gallery\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/81","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.knitbot.org\/gallery\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.knitbot.org\/gallery\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.knitbot.org\/gallery\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.knitbot.org\/gallery\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=81"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.knitbot.org\/gallery\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/81\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":85,"href":"http:\/\/www.knitbot.org\/gallery\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/81\/revisions\/85"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.knitbot.org\/gallery\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/84"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.knitbot.org\/gallery\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=81"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.knitbot.org\/gallery\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=81"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.knitbot.org\/gallery\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=81"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}