Amelie

It's official - I am not good at taking pictures of socks.  I keep trying and trying, but the pictures just don't seem to get any better.  Then I go and see other people's socks photos on Ravelry and for the most part the pictures look good.  As a result I've come to a couple of conclusions regarding sock photos:

1. It takes practice to become good at photographing socks.
2. These people are just inherently good at taking photos.
3. They have someone other than themselves taking the photo of them wearing the socks.

I'm mostly leaning toward #3 as the real answer.   I just need to rope in Mr. SpiderKate to take photos of me wearing my hand knit socks.  Though it might be hard since I already rope him into taking pictures of me wearing shawls.  We'll see.

I recently finished up my first ever cuff down magic loop socks.  The pattern I did was Amelie by Alana Dakos of Never Not Knitting.  I was drawn to this sock pattern mostly for its versatility in that it offers three different to ways to knit the socks: double pointed needles (DPNs), magic loop, and two circulars.  I had been meaning to try knitting socks via magic loop and I've been wanting to learn to knit socks with two circulars.  How could I resist this pattern?  Well, I couldn't 

I must say, I wasn't sure I was going to like knitting socks via magic loop, but I loved it!  The advantage of magic loop (as with all magic loop projects) is that you can easily try on the item as it is being knit.  Knitting a sock & being able to easily try it on was just amazing.  I am never able to try on socks until I finish the heel when knitting socks using DPNs.  I find this somewhat annoying because I often find myself wondering how the leg of the sock is going to fit.  With magic loop you don't have to wonder, you can just try it on!

Turning the heel

On to the pattern details:

Ravelry project link: Amelie

Needle: US 1 (2.25 mm)  32" circular needle (I used wooden needles by Knitter's Pride).

Yarn: Neighborhood Fiber Co. Studio Sock in colorway Del Ray.

Amount of yarn used: 40 g per sock, so 80 g total = 284 yards. 

One of the best sock photos I took!

Notes/Modifications: I really enjoyed knitting this sock.  The pattern was well written and easy to follow.  The only criticism I have is related to knitting the foot.  As is typical with cuff down socks, you knit until you are 2" from the end of your foot.  This is somewhat dicey with this pattern because there is a chart consisting of 20 rows and the pattern instructs you to stop after row 10 or 20 when you are closest to the 2" from the end of foot.  I think it would have been nice to give an option to knit in the established ribbing pattern after row 10 or 20 until 2" less than desired length.  Of course you would only need to do that if knitting 10 extra rows would be too much.  I plan on knitting these again, but to try out the two circular needles method of sock knitting.

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