Completed: July 2015
I made these socks using the pattern called "Symmetry" in Op-Art Socks by Stephanie van der Linden. This book is packed full of unique, colorful, and beautiful sock patterns, most of them based on the styles of various Op-Art artists like Victor Vasarely, Bridget Riley, and Josef Albers.
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| The finished socks |
The pattern is written for Zitron Trekking Sport 4-ply yarn, but I couldn't find the colors they used anywhere online, so I used Lorna's Laces Shepherd Sock hand-dyed yarn instead. Shepherd Sock has just about the same gauge and came in very similar colors to the ones used in the pattern.
I used (hand-dyed) in color 16ns (Charcoal) for the main black background and color 76 (Aslan) for the lighter variegated stripes. I knitted them on a US #1 needle.
I made one of the socks back in the winter of 2014-2015, and then put the project aside for months while working on other things; when I finished blocking the second sock in the summer of 2015, it was smaller than the first. I re-blocked it and tried to stretch it so it matched the first a little better, but this will forever be a lesson to me not to let my projects sit too long.
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