Saturday, November 3, 2007

Happy feet

These are my granddaughters. That's Princess Gigi on the left. She's two. Princess Lily is on the right and she's four. I think they're pretty special.
Lily got her own custom socks this summer. One of her princess duties was to choose the yarn for her first pair of socks. She chose "pink Grandmother". But then she revised to the variegated with purple and aqua. It is Cascade fixation yarn. She has pink top cuffs, heels and toes. Her mother took the pictures so, sorry you can't see the heels. Lily likes her cuffs turned down. These are a 3x2 rib with a purl rib every 4th row showing on the outside. Only it rarely shows since she turns them down. That's ok. She gets a 6 gore star toe, jus tlike most of the top down socks I make. I really hate doing kitchener stitch so just don't, usually. Besides this toe is easy and fits so well.
Princess Gigi really liked her big sister's socks. She liked them so much she kept taking them for herself. So she got her own custom pair. They are just a skosh big so she will have a bit of growing room at the toe for this winter. She has pink fixation yarn, the same pink as Lily's socks, actually. Her cuffs are a garter rib 2x2. She wants to wear her socks every day but her mother won't let her do that.
I'm thinking Grandmother will have to knit more socks for the princesses.


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