I’ve been found out! My Sockapalooza 4 pal knows who I am!

I now know this is why some pals are so brief and to the point when contacting the people they are knitting for. I was merrily sending chatty emails and blabbering away on here about how she needed thinner socks and liked ‘em long. Wasn’t hard for the poor girl to put two and two together and find who exactly was stalking her! So the surprise is gone, but I know that she LOVES her socks (hurrah!) and I don’t have to worry about being discreet. Because I am rubbish at it!

So, I had a good knitting weekend and the second sock is almost done. Which means time to make a start on the pair for my sock saviour pal.

I’m not sure about it yet. I may go down a needle size because I think these are coming up too big (I went up a size because the original pattern was too small for my pal!) and I need to see the pattern forming a bit more as I’m not liking it so far. But you can see that I finally went for the cheery apple-ness of the Opal yarn.

A couple of replies to the comments on my last post. Seanna Lea wanted to know if I was using a foot form to display the sock. I am indeed! I bought a pair of them about a year ago now, when I realised that I was really rubbish at taking photos of my own feet. Mine came from an eBay seller in Thailand, IIRC (try doing a search using mannequin foot), and cost about ten quid including postage.

Alison asked if the pattern would look good with a stripey yarn. I don’t know..! I think it’s easy for a varigated or patterned yarn to obscure even the simplest stitch pattern. Think it’s a case of swatch it and see!

Of course, now the Bank Holiday is over, we have gorgeous sunshine here, so I’m going to sit down and finish the second sock and enjoy the experience of not being rained on.