Perhaps I should call these Peeves, as in Purple Jeeves!

“Not those socks, Jeeves,” I said, gulping a bit but having a dash at the careless, off-hand tone. “Give me the purple ones.”

“I beg your pardon, sir?”

“Those jolly purple ones.”

“Very good, sir.”

He lugged them out of the drawer as if he were a vegetarian fishing a caterpillar out of the salad. You could see he was feeling deeply. Deuced painful and all that, this sort of thing, but a chappie has got to assert himself every now and then. Absolutely.

• from “Jeeves and Chump Cyril”

I can’t find my 3.25mm bamboo circular atm even though I last used it about a month ago, so I am having to wrestle with the dpn porcupine. This seems to be a quick knit; why haven’t I made socks in 8ply/DK before?!

The colour is difficult to photograph; the colour of the socks are closer to the correct colour IRL than the balls (except it should be a deeper shade).

MODS and notes

• toe up using Judy’s Magic CO
• using 2 sets of dpn because I have them and I can! (and I’ve lost my favourite bamboo circular)
• 2 patterns reps + 8r until start gusset inc. Sole needle 24 -> 38 sts
• extended heel flap until end of next pattern rep (34row total or 4 reps in total)
• another 4 reps for the leg (8 reps total)
• 10r 1x1 ribbing. Cast off using 5.00mm needle

25/10/11: Turned one heel and doing gusset increases on the other sock. Did I mention how quickly these are knitting up?!

BTW, I did end up finding my bamboo circular about half way up the legs. Just as well, as I’d already managed to skewer my leg twice on the dpns! :S

4/11/11: I can’t believe I won a prize in the FGF: Purple Socks KAL! The second picture is the stitch markers I got from will-knit-for-food. I also got a $25 gift voucher from The Loopy Ewe (I haven’t chosen what to get yet…))