The Knitting Fiend

I managed to sit myself down, knit the foot and toe of the “Seamless Argyle Sock”. I’ll be adding the criss-crosses using duplicate stitch.

Now, as everyone knows, every pattern needs a name. If it doesn’t have a name, there is absolutely no hope other knitting blogs can refer to it by name, create a “item X” knit-a-long, and generally create a knit blog induced frenzy. (Which is, it goes withough saying, the goal of every amateur knit designer with a blog. )

Granted, a clever name is not enough to create the frenzy. Neverthless, it is clear these socks need a clever name.

To that end I thought I would name them: “Seamless Argyle Socks” or “The Knitting Fiend’s Seamless Argyle Socks”. Clever, huh? Well, if you don’t think this is sufficiently clever, suggest some sort of appropriate name. Maybe you can refer to some sort of historical Scots event? Or translate “Black Diamond” into ancient Scots?

Unpronounceable words containing vowels that do not exist in English are more than welcome. (Extra points if you come up with a name that includes either the word “knitting” and the word “blog” in ancient Scots!)

Ok, do some want to get knitting more than they want to suggest names? Well, you can’t yet. I told blog readers this is a test knit and I’d be fixing the program. Well, I’m working on fixing, but now I want to test knit the fixes. (There really aren’t that many. Most are clarifications. One is something wrong just when you finish the black diamonds and start the next white bit. )

I re-coded a few lines and put the edited version in at a “secret” address where only I can run it. Now, I’m going to cast on and verify the code modifications are correct — at least for this sock.

At that point, I’ll consider the test knit “good enough” to re-inflict readers with this pattern. I’ll also get more yarn and knit a second pair of socks in a different gauge. The second pair will be finer gauge so I can verify there are no boo-boos when I knit a second set of black diamonds.

Besides test knitting the pattern, I also want to demonstrate more details on line. Now that I have a better camera, I can get good photos of details. Blogging also lets me show every single frigging step (which is useful here because this is an unusual technique I ginned up. ) So, during the course of next week, I’ll be taking photos of details techniques so people who read the pattern can see precisely how I knit it!