Again I'm prefacing with a prettier-than-my-FO non-knitting photo. This is the cake I baked for my flatmate's birthday yesterday. Based on this recipe, it took three bars of full-sized Green & Black's 70% chocolate and five eggs. The redcurrents were a last-minute thought, but they balance the richness beautifully. All very yum.
Back to the knitting - I have another sock FO.
Pattern: based on Crusoe but toe up with a dutch (square) heel (instructions for toe-up dutch heel found here).
I loved the stitch pattern, don't know what all this stuff about it lacking stretch is about (although this could be helped by the wonderful yarn, see below). Super-quick to knit with all those slipped stitches, and obviously it does what it is designed to do (i.e. show off variegated yarn).
I'd not tried a dutch heel before, toe-up or cuff-down so this was an experiment. I think it was a bit too square for me, and the heel is very wide. But I will reserve judgment till after I've warn them longer than just taking photos of my feet. The heel was lots of fun to knit, even more than short-rows (and I LOVE short rows). I might play around with variations on this to see if I can make a toe-up dutch heel I like better.
Yarn: Cherry Tree Hill Supersock in "Northern Lights".
The colours are a bit dark to come out well on screen, but are lovely. Although I've no idea why they choose the name "Northern Lights" which I imagine as being much paler (I've never seen the northern lights so could well be talking poo). The bright neon pinks and greens with dark blues and purples made me think of 80s disco lights more than anything else. I didn't have any trouble with the dye coming off on my needles or hands, which I've heard from a few other Cherry Hill users.
Other than colours, I once read this yarn described (along with STR & Koigu) simply as "a very nice merino". I think that says it all. It is warm and soft and squishy, which matches the thickness of the stranded pattern well. These are going to be very cozy socks.
I'll finish with a close up of the cake. I'm off to eat some more of it.
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I've just cast on my second sock using the same yarn but a basic ribbed pattern, the colours are gorge and I just love the feel of the yarn. I have some in Spring frost in my stash so may use the Crusoe pattern for it as it does show off the variagation very well.
I now have my yarn ready tomake Rosalind, I have chosen Debbie Bliss merino aran in a chocolate and a sludgy green (as named by my mum). I will send you a link to pic when its compledted.
The colours are indeed gorgeous, and I can sorta see why they call it "Northern Lights" - since depending on the intensity of the lights you can see, how far north you are, and whether there's a lot of light pollution around, you can see many more colours than just pale-ness. In fact, I've heard from other people, that occasionally you can actually HEAR the lights as well...
OMG that cake looks amazing!!!! The socks look lovely, I'll get around to finishing my jaywalkers eventually.
I was going to say the same thing about "hearing" lights (again, I've only heard of people hearing...)
the cake looks great - very grown up decoration
Ah, so that is the secret of the toe-up dutch heel. I find they work (cuff-down) really well for my foot
Oooh, lovely cake! You may have inspired me to bake something today.
And I love CTH sock yarn, too. I made a Clapotis for my mother out of the Tropical Storm colorway (discontinued, I think), and it's absolutely gorgeous. It's too expensive for me to justify making socks out of though :)
Oh my god, that cake is beautiful!
Yum yum yum yum cake :)
(Nice sock, too)
Nice socks, CTH is nice and sproingy.
I've been seeing so many of those crusoe socks - I must try it
rats! the link to the cake recipe doesn't work.
You did an excellent job with the cake and the socks. If I have to choose between those two I would choose the cake. It looks great.
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Jozy Altidore (17 ans), l'attaquant du Toronto FC, célèbre après avoir marqué contre le gardien des Seattle Sounders, Stefan Frei, à droite, sous les yeux du défenseur Joevin Jones lors de la finale de la Coupe MLS à Toronto, le samedi 9 décembre 2017. La Presse Canadienne via AP)
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Pendant plus de 12 mois, le Toronto FC était la meilleure équipe de la Major League Soccer. Mais depuis plus de 12 mois, maillot foot pas cher et en particulier depuis 364 jours, il avait été fait pour attendre. Ce moment.
Jozy Altidore attendait sa course et filait au but. Sebastian Giovinco attendait une balle parfaitement équilibrée sur son passage. Pour que l’attaquant américain relève son but au-dessus de Stefan Frei et fasse demi-tour. Pour le pandémonium. Pour une coupe MLS.
Samedi, il a tout cela
Il s'est forgé la réputation d'être l'un des spécialistes des coups francs les plus meurtriers d'Europe pendant son séjour à Leverkusen, et pourrait prendre la relève d'Eriksen s'il arrive aux Spurs.
Mourinho a jusqu'à présent fait appel à Gedson Fernandes pour un prêt de 18 mois de Benfica, tandis que les dernières rumeurs suggèrent que l'attaquant maillot foot pas cher Willian Jose devrait subir un examen médical avant de passer de la Real Sociedad.
Pendant ce temps, Tottenham a contacté le Real Madrid pour l'informer qu'il est prêt à payer 30 millions d'euros (25,34 millions de livres sterling) pour Gareth Bale ce mois-ci - mais aurait dit aux géants de la Liga qu'ils n'iraient pas plus haut pour signer à nouveau le Pays de Galles en avant.
Bale a été lié à un retour à Tottenham au cours du mois dernier, l'ailier ayant du mal à convaincre les fans de Madrid.
Le joueur de 30 ans a aidé Los Blancos à remporter la Liga et la Copa del Rey une fois chacun, et la Ligue des champions à quatre reprises depuis 2013.
Cependant, le Santiago Bernabeu n'a jamais vraiment affronté Bale, qui n'a pas non plus convaincu l'entraîneur-chef Zinedine Zidane qu'il méritait de commencer régulièrement pour l'équipe.
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