More Dragon Sightings
Not much time for spinning, knitting or blogging tonight so I thought I would share a few more Dragon Sock sightings. I think I am going to have to start a gallery of finished Dragon socks. So if you finish a pair, please send me a photo (you can use the "email me" link in my side bar) and let me know what yarn you used. And if you made any special modifications to the pattern, let me know about that, too!
This week, the theme is veering towards green dragons. First stop is to Lily of the Cat Mandala blog (at least that's how Google translated her blog name for me). Her socks are made in Fleece Artist Superwash Merino and she refers to them as her "Green Iguana" socks. Be sure to click on the link and check out her socks. I really wish I could read Japanese, but her pictures tell a nice story.
Mary (if you have a blog, let me know) sent me this lovely picture of her Koigu Dragon Socks. This pattern introduced her to the twisted German Cast On -- I'm always glad to bring others into the fold where this fabulous cast on is concerned. I use it for almost every sock because it gives the edge a nice elastic quality.
Kelli, of Knitter Bunny made her socks out of the very appropriate Sleeping Dragon yarn. She used a slightly larger needle to get a sock with a bigger diameter and also knitted some extra repeats to give her a longer sock. You can see more of her finished pictures and a great closeup that really shows off the how well the yarn goes with the pattern (I wish you could see it better in the picture above, I had to shrink it for my blog, unfortunately reducing some o the detail.) Kelli knit these socks up to be entered in her local State Fair. Good luck Kelli! I'll be rooting for you!
And just a quick reminder. If you're interested in a Dragon Sock knitting kit of your own, please don't forget to send me your "happy dance" (i.e. things you like to do when you celebrate) to me at happydance@keyboardbiologist.net. Oh, and if you send me a happy dance, you have to send it to me in English so that I can make sure that you're sending me something real and not spam.
And thank you everyone for your nice nice comments about my Sloopy yarn. Knitting will commence soon... I just have to figure out how to translate the idea in my head into yarn.
I love the pattern and I'm always interesting in learning a new technique. Hmmm.. . going to have to pull out something good from my stash!
Love the Dragon socks! I'm going to have to knit me some.
How do you think they'll do on big fat girl feet?
I'm an elementary student in Japanese but I tried my best to translate and figure out what Lily said in her entry. (And google's translation of the blog is correct, the name is Cat Mandala from what I can read).
It seems like she was going to attempt the pattern by basing it on the picture and a similiar pattern but then thought that you had obviously done your research and put a lot of work into it so she decided to buy it?? She said it was clear and easy to follow and that she really liked the design.
She said a bunch of other more technical comments and observations on her choices of yarn and the pattern itself, but my Japanese isn't that great so I didn't quite catch on with all those knitting terms in Japanese! T-T
But it seems like she really liked the pattern!