Provisionally speaking

    I'm making the Cauchy socks from Cookie A's book Sock Innovation. You begin with a provisional cast on as the cuff has a folded picot edge, and not having worked that before I needed guidance. I couldn't fathom the illustration and written instructions as given at the back of the book (standard Interweave Press ones), and various videos were tried and found wanting, but in the end I used this page with reference to this video (for the long-tail cast on), and I managed.

    I can see that folding the hem and picking up the provisional stitches would be straightforward with thicker yarn and bigger needles and above all, knitting flat, but doing it in the round at a relatively fine gauge was quite a fiddle. However, I got past that tricky bit and am working away fine so far.

    For anyone interested in the socks' name, here's Cookie's explanation:

"My first cat was named after the French mathematician Augustin Louis Cauchy, who was famous for the Cauchy-Schwarz inequality among numerous other accomplishments. These socks use a simple knit/purl combination to form lines that resemble inequality signs, hence the name."

Comments

[Claire]

Brave woman - well done. I stick to my tried and tested bog standard pattern. Look forward to seeing the finished article (in due time, of course!).

[Dark Puss]

Knitting, mathematics and cats in one post; well done!

For a moment I wondered if you were knitting something that demonstrated the properties of a Cauchy sequence.

[Cornflower]

Yes, don't held your breath, Claire!

[Cornflower]

Speaking of cats' names, I heard a good one today: a former organist of Lincoln Cathedral had a feline friend called Magnificat!

[Dark Puss]

Groan !!

:-)