....I walked with you once upon a dream.
I know you....
....the gleam in your eyes is so familiar a gleam.
Or maybe that's the burning of your retinas from the hot pink of these socks.
The Once Upon a Dream Socks
Yarn - Wollmeise sock yarn, 80/20 twin, colorway Dornroschen (Sleeping Beauty)
Needles - KnitPicks circulars, size 0, 2.00 mm
Pattern - Adapted from a stitch in a Japanese stitch dictionary. The pattern will be written up and available for free.
Method - toe-up, heel flap, Magic Loop, two at a time for the foot, one at a time for the heel and cuff for no particular reason other than I was tired of working across both socks at once.
I am enamored of the Disney movie, Sleeping Beauty. The fairies! So plump and loyal. I love it when one of them petulantly tells Maleficent, "You weren't wanted!". The whole "Make it pink! Make it blue!" debate? Fantastic.
The animation is also remarkable for that time period. I read that this was being made at the time that Walt Disney was building Disneyland and as artists waited for his approval on the artwork, they'd spend time filling in more details and refining their drawings. The forest scenes are so detailed, down to every little line of bark on the trees.
This yarn was in the first batch that I bought directly from the Wollmeise shop in Germany. As soon as I saw it in person, I knew that it needed leaves and lace and maybe some twisted stitches. I adore my Japanese stitch dictionary, but there's no English instructions and I feel like a flippin' genius anytime I'm able to interpret one of the charts into a real piece of knitting.
The Wollmeise yarn makes anything look wonderful with the fabulous colors, but I'll tell you. It's a special kind of splitty. I wouldn't say that it splits easily, but when it does....oh brother. The plies are as fine as hairs and you can have almost the whole stitch but for one little threadlike strand that just won't cooperate. It definitely took me a while to learn to cope with this and not fight the tiny plies. I haven't knit with the 100% superwash yet, so I don't know if this is particular to the 80/20 twin type of yarn. That's my only complaint about the yarn, because it really is astonishing to see.
And hopefully, the mail guy will bring me one last package tomorrow and then I'll have all my skeins. My lovely, lovely skeins. And I'll get to lay them all out on the bed and roll around in them in a paroxysm of Wollmeise euphoria eat the Gummy Bears that Claudia sends along with the yarn.
Nice castle, babe.
Great socks, Becca! Can't wait for the pattern!!
Posted by: J. Denae | March 18, 2008 at 09:21 AM
Very nice! I'm impressed with your creativity in designing socks. (I'm much more of a pattern follower myself.) And in Wollmeise to boot. sigh
Posted by: Tammy | March 18, 2008 at 10:08 AM
those are awesome! very pink, though, what will you be wearing them with? :)
Posted by: Carly | March 18, 2008 at 10:44 AM
Oooo, I LOVE the vibrant, oh-so-hot pink!
Posted by: weezalana | March 18, 2008 at 03:05 PM
Pretty . . . no . . . gorgeous . . . no . . . WOW! Just don't prick your finger on a spindle and you're good to go. Well done!
Posted by: Ava | March 18, 2008 at 03:43 PM
I LOVE those socks! I can't wait to try your pattern!
Posted by: Rahime | March 18, 2008 at 06:51 PM
Lovely socks! Very springy!
Posted by: Dove | March 18, 2008 at 10:51 PM
Very nice socks :)
Posted by: hakucho | March 20, 2008 at 03:33 PM
Pretty socks! When I was little, we used to sit around and debate who had the best dress--Cinderella, Sleeping Beauty or Snow White. Sleeping Beauty's dress always won for me!
Posted by: Jeanne | April 16, 2008 at 08:29 PM