Feather and fan socks

Feather & Fan Socks by Judy Sumner from Socks, Socks, Socks 

Needle US 1 - 2.25 mm

 Yarn Austermann Step Colorway 18 Vulcan Dye lot 200206

Originally cast on 4/9/2017

April 20, 2017

I’ve just started the heel on sock #1. I should have gone up to a size 2 needle (which was my first impulse). The feather and fan pattern seems to really draw the knit fabric in. Also this yarn seems really thin to me. I wonder if it will bloom when I was it? It’s a little splitty but super soft. If the socks feel too tight for me I will either give them to my sister or my friend who gave me the yarn.

 

April 25, 2017

GRRRR. I was starting to reduce the gusset stitches when I thought I should try this sock on. Far too tight! So I ripped it completely out this morning on the way to work. I really enjoy this pattern so I should mind the reknit too much. As long as it fits!

2025

These socks were added to my 2025 bingo chart so I alternated working on these with the Girly Girl socks.  I'm not sure when I reknit the lace on the first sock.  These were in serious timeout! Basically I knit the lace portions at home and did the heel and foot on the go.  These were finished on April 18, 2025.

Girly Girl Socks

These socks have a long history.  I wanted to knit them for my sister since around the late 1990s but didn't think that I could handle the lace pattern.  In 2016 I said "Self, you have been knitting for nearly twenty years.  You can handle this pattern."

Well could I?

Girly Girl Socks by Robin Fouquette from Socks: A Spin-Off Special Publication for Knitters and Spinners 

Needle: US 1 - 2.25 mm

Yarn Brown Sheep Wildfoote Luxury Sock Colorway Kansas Sky, Dye lot 3

05-19-2016

CO with size 0 and 54 stitches. Knit about 10 rows and found it really didn’t fit over my heel-and broke a needle doing it! Started over with size 1 and 64 stitches. Knit 15 rows and began pattern. 

Then they went to timeout.

April 1, 2019

Actually I have 63 stitches on my needles. I’m knitting the heel 14 rows long (over 29 stitches/left 34 for instep). K16 then turn.

 At some point this sock went into severe timeout for several reasons, one of which was that I lost the second ball of yarn!  And it was discontinued!  I finally found an auction on Ebay in October 2020 and overpaid for a ball!  Yet still it sat.

I made a bingo chart of projects for 2025 and put these socks, and others, on it.  So after I finished my Anniversary socks for DH, I pulled these out and went to town.  Washed, blocked and dried on April 8, 2025.  I plan to give these to my sister immediately upon her arrival this summer and she better like them!

Snap tray

Woke up far too early this morning and made a snap tray for my niece.  She's off to Japan on Saturday and these trays are so handy when traveling. 

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