Round 4 – Lucky Diamonds

We think you’ll like this one – you’ve certainly speculated about it enough!

You can certainly get some great results when you pair two contrasting yarns and an interesting pattern.

The designer this time is Melissa Goodale and here’s what she has to say about her design process for this sock.

I like to swatch random stitch patterns when I’m bored.  Some people can sketch their designs out on paper, but I’ve got to play them out with yarn before I ever grab a pen.  I had some gorgeous Malabrigo sock yarn kicking around in my bag asking to be knit, so I grabbed a stitch pattern book and started playing with it.  Nothing seemed to be working, and I decided it needed to be paired with a solid; I love contrasting heels, toes and cuffs.

Playing around with a solid and a variegated I actually stumbled upon a wonderful pattern using slipped stitches.  This later became a fingerless glove design I worked up in two different yarns, but I was hooked on using slipped stitches with two yarns and came back to my Malabrigo and Louet combo.

I wound up taking the slipped stitches and pairing them with cables to make them travel across the sock.  I then looked at my design and tried to figure out what to do with it.  As luck would have it a friend of mine sent me the link to the SM3 call for patterns.  I figured this sock was definitely a challenge and sent it in.  I hope you all have as much fun making this pattern as I had designing it!

What are you doing still reading this?  Get knitting!