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Springy little FO

I finished my daughter's Sockotta socks last night. This fiber is a cotton and wool blend with some nylon thrown in - for strength, I suppose. The cotton content and the fun colors lead me to believe that this was an excellent choice for spring knitting:

The socks are just a touch big - which was deliberate, since she's growing so fast. I doubt that these socks will see much wear until school starts again in the fall. She tends to go barefoot or sandalfoot most of the summer.

I incorporated a change into my "standard sock recipe" (adapted shamelessly from Michelle's Basic Sock Pattern) which I will include in all future socks. On the toe decreases, rather than decreasing every other row, I used a decrease formula from Lucy Neatby's book that gives more of a rounded shape to the toe. It goes something like this:

do this three times: do the decrease row, then knit three rows without decreasing
do this two times: do the decrease row, then knit one row without decreasing
then decreases on every row until 16 stitches are left on each of 2 needles.

Well, it's back to the Everyday Cardigan now, which is definitely NOT a spring knitting project. But if I can get it done within the next three weeks, it will make an excellent garment choice for our upcoming camping trip to Devil's Tower (WY) and the Black Hills (SD) the first week in June. I watched "Close Encounters of the Third Kind" last night in anticipation of our trip to Devil's Tower.

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