Carousel Socks

Carousel Socks

Pattern link is here:

https://www.ravelry.com/patterns/library/hipsulaisen-karuselli

What an unusual sock pattern!  A few gals at my local knit shop were knitting these Carousel Socks (Pattern name on Ravelry: Hipsulaisen Karuselli) so I decided to join them.  I used some scrap sock yarn which was all yarn from my Mom’s stash of yarn. Thanks Mom!

The colorful yarn is Red Heart brand “Heart and Sole with Aloe” (colorway: Congo) and the solid navy blue yarn is Knit Picks “Stroll”.

The sock is knit from the center of the heel out and you begin with six stitches.  From there, you knit a relatively flat hexagon by adding stitches every other round. See below:

Then you fold the hexagon up on itself and sew a seam.  You are sewing together two sides of the hexagon. 

Two of the remaining sides of the hexagon become the cuff and the opposite remaining sides of the hexagon become the toe.  

My socks are just a tad bit baggy in the heel area.  When I knit my hexagon, I kept knitting until each of the hexagon’s six sections had 32 stitches. Perhaps if I knit this pattern again, I’ll knit until there are just 30 stitches in each hexagon section for a slightly snugger fit.  I think I will likely make these odd socks again. They were fun and actually went quite quickly.  

Here are a few photos to show you how unique these socks are.  They do not look much like socks and they look as if they should not fit a human foot, but they fit pretty well as you can see.

Bojagi

Bojagi 

I have had this really nice yarn from “Ewetopia” in my stash for quite some time. The colors are called “Citron” and “Aster Blooms”. I purchased the yarn to make a pattern called “Spectra” but fell out of love with that idea. Truth be told, this yarn would look very nice in the Spectra pattern.

Then I found a pattern called “Goldfish Memory” and I started that pattern using this yarn along with some speckled hand dyed yarn.  It looked terrible together.  So I frogged it. The yarn lingered in my stash.

A few weeks back, I was looking on Instagram and I saw a shawl knit up in a pattern called “Bojagi”.  The lady who posted the shawl goes by “KAYTHEARKY”.  

Long story short, I went and grabbed this yarn, cast on the “Bojagi” pattern, and then just knit, knit, knitted merrily along until this project was done.  It was such a perfect and fun knit.  You start off with a little garter stitch, stitch some mosaic stitch, make some beautiful lace, switch back to mosaic stitch, and then race to the finish in garter stitch. It is very unusual for me to work on just one project from start to finish and complete a pattern like this in 12 days, but that’s just what I did because the pattern was so fun.              

It was kind of hard to photograph this project. I think the photos do not do it justice.  It’s really pretty and the yarn is dreamy, squishy soft.  If you’d like to knit this design, I’ve shared the FREE pattern link below.  And I can highly recommend yarn from “Ewetopia”.  I got the yarn at the Interweave Yarnfest in Loveland, Colorado, a few years back.

Here is the pattern link:

https://www.ravelry.com/patterns/library/bojagi-shawl