Rainbow Monkey socks

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Originally uploaded by quixoposto

I started some rainbow socks for myself months ago. But when my daughter started coveting them, I ordered some more yarn from Epicurus on etsy and made her a pair of monkey socks in a week. Mine are still on the needles.

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Two Handed fair isle technique

Philosophers Wool has a wonderful 8 minute video that illustrates how to use 2 hands to do fair isle. The carries are secured to the back of the piece. Sometimes I can't see the video when I use Firefox, and always I wish that it was a bit bigger. I figured out how to get it to pop up in a player that I could resize. Use the following link:

mms://209.172.95.227/PhilosophersWool

I made this for the 6sock knit along January 2006. I used the stained glass slip stitch pattern from Socks, Socks, Socks. Until this sock I had only knit vanilla socks in variegated yarn top down with dp's.

I tried so many things on this sock: toe up, 2 circulars, 2 at once and slip stitch knitting. You would think that so many things at once would have been a disaster. The hardest part was seeing my stitches in black yarn. But they turned out. Not the most professional looking socks, but I still like them.