Plain Socks? Embellish them!
March 27, 2009 by Noreen Crone-Findlay
Filed under inspiration, knitting, tatting
It’s so easy to add a little touch of springtime to your sockies! So…. why have plain jane socks?
photo by Noreen Crone-Findlay copyright
You can add a little embellishment to socks that you have knitted or crocheted,
like these ones that I just finished knitting.
Or, you can dress up purchased socks by stitching on purchased or crocheted or tatted
lace.
photo by Noreen Crone-Findlay copyright
I tatted super simple flowers onto these socks…. it took 4 attempts to get the sock
edging right. I found that I liked it best when I cut the self striping yarn into colorways
that made sense for the flowers.
The flowers are rings of 3 ds, p, 3 ds, p, 3 ds, p,3 ds, p,3 ds, p,3 ds, p,3 ds, p,3 ds, close. So, I put the flower colors onto the tatting shuttle, and used the green shades as the ch of 7 ds, to make them read as the stems for the flowers.
By cutting the yarn, and paying attention to where the colors were going to be, it made the flowers read much better than when I just let the yarn come off the ball willynilly.
Don’t be afraid to cut the yarn! Make those stripey bits work for you.
AND…. have fun tatting with sock yarn. Sock yarn is springy and bouncy and tats up just beautifully. So….. sock yarn is not just for knitting or crocheting! Get out your tatting shuttles and tatta-tat-tat with it!
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