I was knitting my Vine Lace socks whilst watching Star Wars but I didn't get very far before I realised they were going to be too small and would probably only just fit an Ewok rather than a woman with medium sized feet ... I couldn't even get the ribbed cuff up over my heel and I didn't have an Ewok to hand either. So I frogged and cast on 80 stitches instead of 68 for the cuff. For the main part of the sock you had to decrease the stitches down to 54. The vine lace is a 9 stitch pattern so to make it wider I replaced each K2 with a K3, adding an extra 12 stitches to each sock (66 stitches per sock). This now seems much better and I think I have kept to the general feel of the pattern.
I checked the finished projects on Ravelry (which I should have done before starting) and it seems a lot of people had also found this sock pattern to be coming out small.
This yarn is pooling in an interesting way... the cuff is stripey but on the leg of the sock the light parts of the yarn are pooling to the right and the dark parts to the left. Not sure if I like this effect but I like the colours in this yarn... they really do remind me of "geraniums", the salmon pink kind with variegated leaves and I can really imagine the smell of geraniums while I'm knitting them. I wonder if the dyeing process was inspired by a geranium or whether they named afterwards?
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