Friday, March 30, 2007

Hello YPF! Part Deux-The FO files

Yeah!!! An FO! I am so happy! It is a great pattern and easy to do IMHO. I had a few problems with forgetting the some last decreases in a few of the repeats of sock 1, but by sock 2 I was cruisin'.

Monkey Socks
Monkey Socks from Knitty.com
Hello Yarn Fat Sock in Sandcastles
US 2 Brittany DPN's
The only mods to the pattern were using sportweight yarn and I knit 4 plain stockinette rows before the toe decreases as they weren't quite long enough and I didn't want to start another pattern repeat.

I just love this yarn, it survived quite a bit of frogging on sock 1, as I said above the missed decreases. Not hardly splitty at all. So soft and look at the colors, hardly any pooling and pretty well distributed. Now don't get me wrong I do love the looks of pooling yarns, but sometimes it's nice to have it all mixed in so to speak.

Hello Yarn A close up of the pattern repeats.



Hello Yarn In profile!



Hello yarn Ahhhh...Stockinette.......

These count for my Socktopia "It's Not Easy Being Green" and Sock a Month KAL March entries. Also the Green Sock KAL

Onward to more socks, sweaters, etc.!

32 comments:

weezalana said...

Those are fabulous!

Liz said...

Yay, pretty monkeys! These socks always seem to turn out gorgeous, but that colorway especially shows off the pattern.

cpurl17 said...

I love seeing Monkeys popping up all over blogland! Yours are so pretty! Yay!

Anonymous said...

Cool Socks!

Anonymous said...

Love, love, love the socks!

Anonymous said...

Great pattern, they look beautiful!

Sonya said...

Love your monkeys! I feel the same way about stockinette... ahhhhhh.

Anonymous said...

Just gorgeous! I love those colours!

Bezzie said...

Oh wow you churned those out fast!!! They look great!

Jennifer said...

Gorgeous! So you used sportweight, eh? I love ze sportweight. Good to know.

sgeddes said...

Love them! The colors are wonderful too. They came out great. I;m going to have to try some of that Fat Sock! And I'm glad to hear the pattern wasn't too hard.

Batty said...

Those are beautiful! I love the way the colors look with the pattern. Not something I'd usually pick, but now that I see the yarn knit up... lovely!

Scoutj said...

Great job Z!!

Jen said...

Yummy!

Anonymous said...

Love these monkeys! And they work for like three different KALs?! That's super planning!! Love the colors! Great job!

Peri said...

Lovely socks- they've come out really well. I do so like the colourways too.

Stacie said...

yay for the FO monkey socks!! those colors are great... now I gotta get away from this 'puter and keep knitting my sock #2!

Anonymous said...

Great coloureway, great pattern, great knitter,...!!!!

Jessica said...

Your socks look great. I love the colors. It's so earthy!

lobstah said...

Those look so cool! The Monkey pattern really gives variegated yarns a great look.

Fiber-4-U said...

Must...
Resist...
Casting...
On...
Monkey's...
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Anonymous said...

Your Monkey socks are totally fabulous - they look awesome in this beautiful colourway! Great job indeed! Gosh, I so have to try out this pattern too!

KnitPastis said...

Squeel...oh how I love this pattern! One of these days maybe.LOL

Anonymous said...

Nice Monkeysocks :) I love that colorway.

Anonymous said...

Those are gorgeous!

Anonymous said...

Pretty, pretty socks, the color and pattern work so well together.

KNIT A NEW DREAM said...

Those are to die for!!!! Guess I'll have to put those on my to do list! Sue

Karen said...

So pretty!!!!! I love that pattern and I love those socks.

Anonymous said...

Lovely monkeys!! The colors really knit up nice and evenly for you, nice job!! I'm just about done with the first one---good idea adding the stockinette rows to the toe section.

Alisha said...

Those are fantastic!!!! The colours are perfect!!!

Macoco said...

I like the profile shot. The socks came out great!

Rain said...

They are stunning. I love the colourway.