ankle bracelet socks

These are pretty simple except that I added beading to one ankle, like an ankle bracelet. I used invisable thread n put the beads on the thread before I started. Then I added the strand of invisable thread to the working yarn and went around the ankle once; sliding one bead up and in place per stitch. They are fresh water rice pearls and agate with one clear cristal on the outside of the ankle. The rest of the sock is a generic short sock.
I appologise for the focus in the close up of the beading. I could not get my camera to 'see' any closer.

A Rainbow Snood, some creative stitching and casting off

It's finished. The colors in this pict are not at all true. It's a soft rasberry pink, a pale terquoise, a forest green and a buttercup yellow. This shows the finished snood, the cast-on, the stitching and the cast-off. It is long enough to go around the neck twice loosely or you can pull up one loop from the neck and wear it as a hood. Either way it is snuggly warm.




This is the cast-on. I used the Channel Island Cast-on to create texture along the edge.




And this is the cast-off, I did something a bit different here. I used the stitched stretchy castoff but on the row before I cast off, I set up with a single strand stitch alternating with a tripple strand stitch. It created a slight 'beading' on the cast-off edge to balance the texture of the cast-on.


The body of the piece is done with a textured row to create even more profile/texture in each stripe.

All in all, it's a very warm snuggly rainbow piece.

A post for sharing my pictures, subject to change.

Baby blankets for some precious twins, there are three blankets because one is always in the wash (and I had more yarn then I needed for two blankets);