Topping socks with Tatted Flowers

One of the members of the Tatta-tat-tatters tatting group on Ravelry mentioned that she tatted edgings onto her daughter’s socks.

I was immediately inspired!

photo by Noreen Crone-Findlay (copyright)

I have sewn lace edging to socks, but never tatted it on.

Last fall, when I was teaching workshops in Portland at the Knit and crochet conference, the goodie bag had sock yarn in it. So, I started these socks, and have picked away at them on and off all winter.

I finally finished them the other day, so now….

I get to have fun with them!

I am doing a super simple tatted flower edging on them, and I am really pleased with it.

I had to start over 3 times, as the first time, I started off with a section of yarn that I really don’t like. It’s got orange and green all smooshed together and looks muddy. So, I frogged that and cut that section of yarn out.

Then, I started again, but realized that I had made the chained sections too long.

Ribbit ribbit ribbit….

Now, I am happy.  7 ds, turn, a ring of 3ds-[p-3ds] 7 times, 7 ds.

It really doesn’t get any easier. But, sometimes, it’s fun to just do ‘easy’.

One of my concerns was that I might make it hard to get my foot into the sock, which is why I have the fairly long chained sections to allow for expansion.

The yarn is Red Heart Heart & Sole with Aloe #3965 Razzle Dazzle.  I love the yarn. It’s a pleasure to work with.

As I worked with the edging, I decided that I still wasn’t happy….

photo by Noreen Crone-Findlay copyright

so I have started over YET AGAIN>>>>>

This time I am pleased.

I have been cutting the yarn and separating the colors, so the flowery bits go on the shuttle to make the blossoms, and the greenie bits go on the ball to make the stems.

I have also put more space between each flower by skipping 2 purl stitches on the cuff and  joining between the 2 knitted stitches of the rib.

And…. Now I am happy with my springtime socks!

The pink in the pic is actually much redder and is more of a rosie color than the bubblegummy version of the photo.