Keena's Socks or "You Rule"

These are socks I made for my 11 year old niece for her birthday - Tube socks for growing feet, from Sockotta.

She had to open the package early, and sent me an IM that said "You Rule"

I'm taking that to mean that she likes the socks :-)

Update - Since several have asked what the yarn is
It's Plymouth Sockotta, #11 colorway
I knit it on Brittany DPNs

And,,,, it's been regifted by Keena to her mother / my sister. Keena doesn't like tube socks, but they fit my sister nicely! :-)

Second Pair of Socks

Here they are on the needles - using two circs. Fairly adventurous for the second pair of socks, right? Well, it gets more interesting - I was kinda making up the pattern as I went along.

I wanted Ravenclaw socks, but couldn't find the right blue in the yarn I wanted to use. This is Sunbeam, Saint Ives - made in England, which I thought was entirely appropriate for a Harry Potter sock. Had to have Ravenclaw, as that was the Hogwarts house I sorted into in 3 of the 4 sorting sites I went to.
And I found that for only two rows of color, one could just carry the color, and not cut and join, and deal with all the ends.


I think it was a mostly successful experiment - The socks fit, the heel was interesting and a bit challenging, and the 'seam' line doesn't look as wonky as it might have.



They're shorter than most, I wanted only seven rings of grey going up the leg, one per book. And I used a 6 pointed star toe.

First Pair of Socks!

I call these my Rainbow Sherbet socks - with the colors all swirled together

Notice the stripes match!

Made with Opal, on Brittany dpn's Size 2
Garter Rib pattern, from Sensational Knitted Socks