Stricken II: Electric Boogaloo

strickstart, a photo by Paula knits on Flickr.

I started Cookie A's pattern Stricken about a year and a half ago. For some idiot reason, I used some fuzzy yarn with a lot of mohair in it. That's a Bad Idea because it blurs the stitches.

My restart uses some groovy yarn from Socktopus. It is very tightly spun which results in a springy yarn where the stitches can easily be seen. This is perfect for a Cookie A pattern. It also makes it plain to me that I'm going to have to find a way of purling that's friendlier to my knitting method. I promise that I'll do this, but I'm going to finish these socks first.