#vilai

This is from Cookie A’s book Sock Innovation, the pattern Vilai. As with all things crafty, once I master something I always want to dive in head-first into the deep end. These were started on an evening where inspiration struck (at 10 pm, like it usually does) and I grabbed the needles and yarn and went for it. I’m not sure, but this might be the second most complicated sock in the book. 

Foot. At the time of the photos (about last weekend), I only had that much worked up. I’ve gotten back into finishing these (well, the first of a pair) and I’m further along than this current picture, I’ll say to shortly before the ball of my foot. I had turned back to this, which was smashed in between the pages of the book containing the pattern, after having failed at tatting something more than a beginner item. (I told you this would happen: I get the first two steps down and suddenly want to improvise and hope that it turns out great...such was not the case).