Nanner Socks- Finished!

*finished Nanner Socks*

Hooray.. finally a finished object! The weather has taken a turn toward being fall-like and I’m more motivated where spinning & knitting is concerned, not to mention that its very nice not to be sweating while knitting. The weather channel says that its 64 outside – I’m VERY happy! (not to mention that this cold wave will hopefully kill the fleas that have returned to the house and are biting me to death) Hubby is out in the woods behind the house right now gathering firewood (I think that’s what he said he was doing…) and we cleaned out the birds nest from inside the chimney in preparation for being able to use our great big fireplace soon.

These socks above are the Nanner Sock null pattern from Wendy Knits that was available only through Plurk. This is my first all over patterned sock and I think I got bit by the bug.. there might not be many more ‘plain vanilla’ stockinette socks in my future now! I really enjoyed the design stitch pattern (very easy to memorize) and it is helping me get my confidence on reading charts. The pattern itself was well written and easy to follow.. though I have to admit that I strayed off the pattern where the heel was involved. I personally don’t like flap heels.. they don’t fit me and I think they are WAY too bulky for my shoes, so I went with a no-hole short row heel and then continued on in the pattern. I also went up to a size 1 needle, did the sock Magic Loop, and made the smallest size.. which fits my nearly size 9 foot perfectly.

The yarn is (looks around for label… clicks over to Ravelry instead..) Lana Grossa Meilenweit 100 Bosco which was an inexpensive ($14.95 at my LYS which as sock yarns go is cheap…) yarn choice for a pair of socks that I wasn’t sure I was going to be finishing. I thought the pattern might be too complicated for me.. clearly I have no self-confidence. I also chose this yarn because I wanted something semi-solid so that I didn’t bore myself to tears (this colorway is actually wine with lines of slate gray and mustard yellow) and superwash because I seem to felt the crap out of all of my socks even if they ARE superwash (I think its that I wear clogs & boots) and I wanted something long wearing if I was going to go through all the trouble of knitting a fully patterned sock. I didn’t realize how stiff of a yarn this (though nowhere near as crunchy as Opal yarns, IMHO) was until I picked up my mom’s hidden cable socks (mountain colors bearfoot) but I didn’t really mind it while I was knitting.

Quick Project Stats:

Pattern: Nanner Socks by Wendy Johnson
Yarn: Lana Grossa Meilenweit 100 Bosco
Needles: size 1 Addi Turbo circulars throughout – knit Magic Loop
Mods: used short row no-hole heel instead of flap heel. Went up a needle size and knit the smallest size (58 sts) for my size 9 feet
Knit it Again? yup! kept me occupied and I love the pattern stitch. I would make these again.