Black And White Pedicure Socks
Pedicure Socks expose the toes, so that when the you leave the nail salon in flip-flops, your feet don't freeze. These socks use a shifting rib pattern to add a subtle texture so as not to take away from the fabulous color gradient in the yarn.
I made these socks using size 3 double-pointed needles and Schoppel Wolle Zauberball Crazy yarn in Black, White, and Grey. I fell in love with the yarn when I saw it in the back of a hardware store. After making myself a set of wrist warmers there was still a lot left over, so decided to make socks for a friend. It's made in the round from ankle to toe, and the structure is a basic sock pattern with approximately a 7 ½" circumference I've adapted with an "insert lace here" section. This is the fourth pair of pedicure socks I've made.
The shifting rib starts with a basic 2x2 rib pattern. Every forth row I used a 1x1 cable to swap the knits with the purls (knits over the purls), lining up the ribbing for the next three rows. The result is a ribbed line which undulates side to side down the length of the sock. I used a rolled edge cast-on on the ankle to start off the 2x2 ribbing and to make sure it was stretchy enough, given the yarn doesn't have much itself. The bind-off is rolled too for the same reason, but I had to knit it tighter because I've been finding it causes a bit of a flair. I'm still working on the best way to bind these socks off. This was the very end of the yarn, so it's a bit short for my mom (the brown nails), who wears size 11. It's a good thing these were intended for a friend of mine with much smaller feet.
I really do love this yarn. It's two strands of a long-repeat color pattern twisted so that they don't line up. First one strand changes color and then the other does. I found that the color sections of the two strands were different lengths, so eventually the colors lined up, and then they didn't again. The yarn is soft on the hands, doesn't fray or pill, and has held up well. As a left handed knitter I wind up untwisting yarn as I knit, but it wasn't as pronounced with this yarn.
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