FO: Ridged Squares Socks

Pattern: Ridged Squares Socks from More Sensational Knitted Socks by Charlene Schurch
Yarn: Regia Solid 4-ply, 2 x 50g in colour: #535
Needles: 2½mm circs

I think I may have been abducted by aliens one night last week and taken to their ship, where they gave me amazing speed knitting powers. There’s no other reason for me to have churned out another pair of socks, this time in five days. Well, they were knitted on 2½mm needles and the pattern was very simple, but was an actual pattern so I knew how many pattern repeats I needed to do for the leg and foot, which was motivation to just knit a few more rounds. And Mr B was away, so I could knit in bed. But I think it was definitely alien abduction.

This and the previous pair could ideally have swapped yarns. These are very plain socks, but that doesn’t mean they won’t be appreciated. The yarn is from the Kemps sale I succumbed to, almost exactly two years ago. The other yarn I bought became last year’s festive socks, funnily enough.

The pattern is from More Sensational Knitted Socks which I do generally prefer over Sensational Knitted Socks because there are a lot more stitch patterns and size options for each pair, though I think the patterns themselves are more interesting in the first book. However, the stitch counts for this sock (a five-stitch pattern knitted over 70 stitches) went completely loopy at the heel turn onwards and I ended up just doing my own thing. I assumed it was me being thick and I spent a long time searching Ravelry until I found one – one! – person who mentioned the same error. So we can’t both be wrong (probably).

I have knitted two other patterns from this book without a sniff of a problem, so I am not saying that the book is riddled with errors and a disgrace to sock books everywhere. It was just irritating when all I wanted was a mindless knit and a book to tell me what to do.

That’s definitely me done on the knitting front for the next week or so, though, as there’s just no time to knit. It’s taken me an hour to finish this post because I keep having to do other things. There may be a lot of cake photos coming up! I’ll finish with a little ta-dah! of Mr B’s festive sock collection. As he’s not even expecting one pair, I think it’ll be a bit of a surprise.