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!

Slow but steady progress

My this is a terrible photo!  Making progress on the second Girly Girl sock.

feeling knitty. . .

I bought this Wildfoote yarn ages ago when I first learned to knit.  I really wanted to make my sister the Girly Girl socks from the Spin-Off Socks publication.  And by a long time ago, I mean seventeen or eighteen years ago.  For some reason this spring I kept thinking about this yarn and this pattern.  Finally I said "self, you've been knitting for eighteen or nineteen years.  Don't you think you have enough experience to try this pattern?"  So in May I decided to try it out.  It turned out pretty well but I put it aside for beach knitting on Memorial Day.  Girly Girl is now my car knitting.

I succumbed to the Mason Dixon Knitting ball band dishcloth over Memorial Day-and have since bought more dishcloth yarn! 

Then on June 1st it was time for Camp Loopy.  I'm making the Herbology Shawlette using the yarn shown here.  This is my main knitting for June.  I'm currently on the ruffle side of the shawlette.  After I finish the ruffle I need to go back to the short-row side and redo the bind off.  It's really tight and there is no way I will be able to block this out properly.