Green stripes

Green stripes
Originally uploaded by taikasatama

Mini Mochi! I fell in love with the Fern Rainbow colorway a while back and at the first glance had a vision of striped knee-high socks. And that's where these babies are heading.

I started at the ankle, knit a few rounds and started working on the heel and all the way to the toe. Next I'll pick up the stitches from the provisional cast on and just knit up until the socks reach my knees or I run out of yarn. I decided to knit these this way because I am not sure how far my 3 balls of yarn will take me - in theory, they should be enough, but you never know. And, as for why I didn't start from toe, I just prefer the cuff down flap heel and the fit of socks knit this way.

The stripes forming are pretty, although I have to do a bit tweaking every now and then. I decided to let in a couple of those occasions where both strands of yarn are the same colour at the same time or change colour in the middle of the sripe and look very irregular.