Copiague

This is a really simple lace pattern, that I reproduced from sweater worn by a woman waiting for a train to Copiague on the Long Island Railroad in Penn Station. She must had thought that I was some mad stalker following her about, but the pattern was so pretty that I had to do something with it.

Pattern Source: Yarn: # of balls: Notions: Needles: Meterage: Yarn Source: Colour: Dyelot: Material: Size: Started: Finished: Resting Period: Recipient :

Copiague Unknown 100g N/A 2.5 mm, 3.50mm for cast-on 90m/50g Maryland Sheep Show Heathery greys N/A 100% alpaca To fit UK women's size 6 15 May 2006 29 May 2006 None Me

The yarn is wonderfully soft and my only regret was to not buy more of it when I had the chance.

Alpaca

What I really loved about it was the heathery colour. There were only 2 balls of the darker grey left, so I used the lighter grey for the hell and toes. These are thick, warm socks. The kind of socks that you wear to bed in cold winter nights or for lounging on the sofa on Sunday afternoon.

I was going to write up this pattern and add to my sidebar, but Deb wrote up a very similar version, which you can find here. There's really no point for me to do it, given my total incapability to pattern check my own work, so just enjoy Deb's version.

Since I used thicker yarn, you'll need to reduce the number of repeats. I think that there were 60 stitches on mine and I knit it up really tightly cause without any nylon, I didn't want the socks to disintegrate in the first wear. Of course, such a thick fluffy yarn on 2.5 mm needles meant that I split the yarn often and had to rip back. Not the end of the world, but annoying nonetheless.





Project Notes

1. Close-up of the lace





2. To make sure that both skeins would give me exactly the same lenght in the foot, I knitted both socks and only started the toes after measuring.



Here's the artsy shot.





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