Perfect Patterns

So, for my Ring Cycle socks, I originally thought I'd design a pair, maybe with some cables based on Elsbeth Lavold's stuff. I pulled the book down and although the cables are just as wonderful and magical as I remember them, none of them struck me as right. Plus, I'm not sure I really want to design these. Maybe I just want to knit them. So I began searching the interwubs. High and low I searched, and I did find several patterns that I want to use for other yarns at other times (oh, holy crap! I just realized something! Weeeeeeee! I'll tell you in a minute.), but I did not find even a hint of the right pattern for this. Perhaps, I thought, perhaps I should just knit them in plain ol' stocking stitch, boring as it is. I mean, the yarn is certainly beautiful enough that there would be nothing shameful in knitting a plain sock. Maybe, maybe that was the answer. So I turned to other things. One of those things was reading a few blog entries here and there. When I finish something for work I like to reward myself with a blog entry or three. So I was reading a little Criminy Jickets, which rarely fails to both amuse and inform and he had this picture of these socks (the Dream Twist pattern in the side bar -- but look what she's working on now!) he was working on. Brilliant! They're perfect! Love them! Can't wait to start! (Huge thanks to Mona for going to the trouble to send the pattern to me as an attachment when I couldn't get it to open after downloading from the site.)

And, as an added bonus, I found the perfect pattern for the latest Socks That Rock club yarn. The yarn is named Firebird, and with the club yarns there's always a related word or phrase printed inside the ball band. Different people get different words. Mine for Firebird was "Phoenix." The pattern I found? Fawkes. (Okay, if you are one of the three people in the world who has not either read the Harry Potter books or seen the movies, Fawkes is a phoenix.) Brilliant! It's perfect!

So, what I just realized before was that one of the patterns I found but didn't know what I was going to use it for is perfect for the new Cider Moon I just got in Lost. Sweet! Now if only I could find a pattern for my Red Sox Sock...nah, those I'll probably design myself. Fawkes and Red Sox and Lost will just have to wait, though (hey...I can start the Lost socks when next season starts...that's not a bad idea...). Now, back to work on Stepmom Socks. Which will not be called that when I publish the pattern, but I'm not sure what I'm going to actually call them yet.

posted by Laura Y. @ 4:38 PM