WIP Wednesday

Indigo Socks:

My second pair of handspun socks. Spun on a low-whorl drop spindle and chain-plyed on my spinning wheel, Scheherazade.

The breed is cheviot and dyed with indigo, though I'm not the one who dyed or combed it. I overspun the single to see if that helps it stand up to abraision, and this is only my second or third time trying to chain-ply something, so it's about as sloppy as you'd expect.

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Pattern:

Cast on 92 stitches with long-tail cast-on in a knit 2, purl 2 pattern (k2, p2).

Knit in a k2, p2 ribbing for 45 rounds.

Knit a fish lips kiss heel While knitting the heel maintain a partridge stitch pattern (basically slip every other stitch as if to purl on the right side, then offset those slip stitches every row so they line up diagonally instead of vertically)up