In a continuing series of short blog entries about argyle sock progress, I bring you the finished Happy Socks, aka, the Dunkin' Donut Argyles, aka the socks you'd wish I'd finish already and get on with the knitting you care about.
To briefly sum up: the pink and the green yarn is JaWoll Superwash, and the orange is Dale Baby Ull. Yes, that is a star toe you see there. I was feeling like trying something new there too, because intarsia and teensy needles just wasn't crazy enough, I know.
And if you're new here and are curious about such things, the chart is back a few blog entries along with a tutorial on how to make some of your own. And yes, they are knit flat. Don't ask me why, please.
So now that I've satisfied my self-imposed rules for casting-on something new by getting these socks off the needles, I am awaiting Anne's Wing of the Moth shawl pattern which she has promised to make available today. I have mistakenly credited Miriam with this shawl a couple of times, so I want to make special note to anyone who may not be familiar with Anne's beautiful pattern that hers is the design I have been pining for. Today I am checking her blog about once every thirty minutes, and while I wait, I have cast on with some of my Web's booty, Donegal Tweed colour #880, for Kate's Sunrise Circle Jacket. One thing off the needles and two things on? And I wonder how I get myself into trouble.
The Dunkin' Donuts Socks are (to use the vernacular of my Boston-raised husband)wicked awesome. I love them!
Posted by: caro | August 18, 2006 at 01:42 PM
The DD socks are fantastic! Congratulations on finally finishing them!
Posted by: Carole | August 18, 2006 at 01:48 PM
De-lurking to say that I absolutely care deeply about those socks. There is something spectacular in an orange and pink, and argyle can only make it better.
Don't you dare think I'm being sarcastic. I love them.
Posted by: Cordelia | August 18, 2006 at 01:50 PM
I had a moment where I thought I'd open this post and actuallt see argyles with donut shapes in between where the skulls sit. Perhaps next time?
The sunrise circle jacket is an excellent project to cast on. Don't worry about the trouble you're getting into!
Posted by: Julia | August 18, 2006 at 01:58 PM
Very nice! I too am waiting with bated breath for the moth shawl, I think that is what my webs-purchased KSH is meant to be.....
Posted by: PumpkinMama | August 18, 2006 at 02:29 PM
Wait, you're saying you knit those argyle socks flat? Why?? E-mail me and tell me why. And e-mail me the chart too. Now! Hop to it!
Posted by: Cheryl | August 18, 2006 at 02:34 PM
Nifty socks!
Posted by: c | August 18, 2006 at 02:54 PM
Forget wicked awesome, those are wicked PISSAH. Seriously. Love the Dunkin' Donuts argyles.
Posted by: Martha | August 18, 2006 at 03:08 PM
Wow, I love how those turned out. They look great. You could almost convince me to knit them, almost. Love the Donegal Tweed too. Gorgeous stuff. Don't make me look at another lace pattern, fer cryin' out loud! The lace bug has hit in a big way. I need help!!!
Posted by: Wanda | August 18, 2006 at 03:55 PM
Ooh, I just looked at the Wings of the Moth shawl, that is absolutely goregeous. I definitely would like that pattern. Just loverly!
Posted by: Wanda | August 18, 2006 at 04:12 PM
Oh, Julia, I LOVE them. I don't care at all that they have no pirates on them. They're perfectly lovely in their own right! I am going to have to overcome my intarsiaphobia one of these days and make a pair.
Are you the first to break into your Webs haul? I think you might be!
Posted by: Beth S. | August 18, 2006 at 04:26 PM
OK, I love those socks. Love them. WANT to knit them, even. There. I said it. AND they're probably going to come before the mittens, damn you.
Oh, and? What Cheryl said.
Posted by: Kellee | August 18, 2006 at 05:47 PM
Dunkin' Donuts - something I truely truely miss about New England!
Posted by: Theresa | August 18, 2006 at 06:13 PM
They look fabulous! And, awfully familiar for some reason.... (grin)
Posted by: --Deb | August 18, 2006 at 09:52 PM
so fun. so colorful. lovely.
Posted by: maryse | August 18, 2006 at 11:07 PM
One off two on sounds good to me. The socks came out great. I will aspire.
Posted by: Laurie | August 19, 2006 at 10:01 AM
I totally care deeply about socks. *grin* Plus, have you seen this:
http://yarn-monkey.blogspot.com/2006/07/are-you-ready-for-sock-wars-2006.html
?
Sock wars!
Posted by: Marianne | August 19, 2006 at 02:22 PM
now THOSE socks rock>
Posted by: anne | August 19, 2006 at 08:35 PM
Love, love, love those socks! Very nice job!
Posted by: Manise | August 20, 2006 at 09:30 AM
I LOVE THOSE SOCKS.
Posted by: Norma | August 21, 2006 at 10:51 AM
I sooo want to knit me a sunrise circle jacket too... Oh for the perfect yarn at a perfect price (and finding enough me time to dedicate to the task..)
I'm loving your argyles still- may have to try some for myself seeing as my man doesn't find them as appealing as I do.
Posted by: di | August 21, 2006 at 05:40 PM
Gorgeous socks. I have a couple of questions about some of the mechanics around the heel and gusset area.
When you start the heel flap, do you keep all the stitches you had on the back half of the leg? If so, does this cause a little pucker at the bottom of the seam, where it joins the heel flap? It seems to me that it would, since two of those stitches would be tucking into the mattress-stitched seam, but none of the resources I've looked at mentioned something like, say, binding off or decreasing away one stitch at each edge before bringing the two pieces together to form the heel flap. What do you do there?
Also, do you add a selvedge stitch on the instep and the gusset pieces? Again, it seems like slight puckering would ensue if one didn't, but none of the resources I've seen mention it. If you add a selvedge stitch, do you get it by increasing, or cast on an extra at each edge?
Posted by: Sara | August 24, 2006 at 12:45 PM