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SM19 Round Four - Brintarsia
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April 21, 2025
April 28, 2025

SM19 Round Four - Brintarsia

Project info
Brintarsia by Renee Strouts
Knitting
Feet / Legs → Socks → Mid-calf
Size 2, EU40
Needles & yarn
US 1½ - 2.5 mm
32 stitches and 48 rows = 4 inches
in stockinette
Knitted Wit Victory Sock
Felicia Cakes
Multicolored
The Sanguine Gryphon Eidos
0.66 skeins = 277.2 yards (253.5 meters), 74 grams
Eureka
Blue-green
The Sanguine Gryphon
Wool2dye4 Donegal Colours
8368 yards in stash
0.08 skeins = 35.0 yards (32.0 meters), 8 grams
Undyed
Notes

SPEC:

Sock D
YARN: Approx. 75 (88, 94, 100)g/300 (350, 375, 400)yds/ 275 (320, 345, 365)m Main Color, 12g/ 48yds/ 44m Contrast Color
EXTRAS: Yarn bobbins (optional)
TESTER 1: MC Austermann Step Classic 34 g; Novita Venla 4,3 g (one sock, size 4)
TESTER 2: MC West Yorkshire Spinners Signature 25 g; Regia Premium Silk 5 g (one sock, size 2)
TESTER 3: MC Yarnsmiths Merino Sock 29 g; CC unknown scrap (one sock, size 2)
TESTER 4: MC Kiwi Yarn-a 30 g/120 m; CC scraps of Cascade Heritage (one sock, size 3)

04-21-2025

MC = Eureka, starting weight 119g
CC = Felicia Cakes, starting weight 29g

04-22-2025

After a few chart repeats, it seems that this bright speckled CC is way too busy for the pattern. I’m going to restart with a plainer CC.

New CC = undyed Donegal Colours

04-23-2025

Start mini gusset increases for heel section after row 20 when foot measures 7-1/4” long (5 completed bubbles on rightmost column).

Short rows begin after charts on row 17.

04-24-2025

Mini gusset decreases complete after chart row 15.

Six extra plain rounds worked at start of leg.

End cuff after row 13.

Sock 1 complete with 82g of MC remaining. Total yarn used = 41g (37g MC + 4g CC).

04-26-2025

Start mini gusset increases for heel section after row 20 when foot measures 7-1/4” long (5 completed bubbles on rightmost column).

04-27-2025

Short rows begin after charts on row 17.

Mini gusset decreases complete after chart row 15.

Six extra plain rounds worked at start of leg.

04-28-2025

End cuff after row 13.

Sock 2 complete

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Finished
April 21, 2025
April 28, 2025
About this pattern
Brintarsia
by Renee Strouts
from Main & Mini Sock Series
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100% Merino
420 yards / 113 grams

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85% Merino, 15% Nylon
437 yards / 100 grams

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  • Project created: January 12, 2025
  • Updated: April 28, 2025
  • Progress updates: 4 updates