FO: Flame Wave socks
Pattern: Flame Wave Socks by Ann Budd from Interweave Knits’ Favorite Socks
Needles: Two circs in size 4US / 3.5mm and Size 3US / 3.25mm
Yarn: Cascade Fixation (just under two balls) 98.3% cotton 1.7% elastic
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Pattern modifications: None, really. These were knit exactly according to the women’s sizing provided in the pattern, going down a needle size since I’m a loose knitter. It was my first time working with Cascade Fixation and I was uncertain how its elastic qualities would work, so I didn’t want to fiddle too much.
These took just under a ball for each sock. They’re quite comfortable. I got the yarn on sale so they came in for under $8. I’d use this pattern and this yarn again.
Knitters have something called “Second Sock Syndrome.” You finish one sock and then feel like you’ve completed the project and have no desire to do exactly the same thing all over again. I don’t suffer from this for two reasons.
One, I constantly knit the same thing over and over again anyway. It’s called a Jayne hat. I may have mentioned it.
Two, my daughter has a computer game called Pajama Sam: Life Is Rough When You Lose Your Stuff. In it, the main character wanders through a magical land that’s inhabited by all the things he’s left lying around in his room. One of them is a single sock, which sings a song about how it misses its matching sock. I will go out on a limb and call it the best musical number sung by an article of clothing in a video game ever. Sorry for the poor sound quality, but you get the gist.
I cannot let one of my socks suffer the same fate as this poor, lonely sweatsock, so I always knit the mate. Just doing my part to lift the spirits of socks everywhere.