As well as fondling yarn, I’ve actually been knitting some!
Here’s the progress on the Mudstone socks. I’ve turned the heel and started up the ankle. Isn’t that a pretty eye of partridge heel? I’m quite pleased with it.
Strangely enough, from a distance these socks appear gray, even though the yarns are blue and brown.
Yes, I am doing something on the ankle. But exactly what I’m doing will remain unrevealed until I decide I like it. But you can guess what I’m doing. That might be fun. If anyone comes up with the right answer, I’ll send you a skein of sock yarn from my stash. Fair enough?
And just look at all of the fellow Yarn Collectors listed over there in the left-hand column. It’s so nice to know I’m not alone! 
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It looks like “Purl when you can” to me, as in purling when you’re over top of the same colour
1Remark from Dave — Monday, 7/31/2006 @ 4:36 PM
I think you are doing the same thing as you did with the Wavy Raspberry socks.
2Remark from Ali — Monday, 7/31/2006 @ 5:37 PM
From One Sock Collector to another it appears that you are doing some shadow knitting. Is that correct? You know, when the pattern is revealed when you look at the knitting from a different angle. Oh, well – that is my answer and I am sticking to it!
3Remark from Kat — Monday, 7/31/2006 @ 5:53 PM
I’d say it looks like shadow knitting to me.
4Remark from Monika — Tuesday, 8/1/2006 @ 3:44 AM
Looks like shadow knitting to me, and several other posters.
Can’t tell what it says yet.
5Remark from Saren — Tuesday, 8/1/2006 @ 6:17 AM
Shadow knitting, I agree. It looks like an ship’s anchor to me. From what I can see of it.
6Remark from Margo — Tuesday, 8/1/2006 @ 9:18 PM
Looks like shadow knitting to me as well. Love those colors together!
7Remark from Kathy — Tuesday, 8/1/2006 @ 11:02 PM
Shadow. Definitely. Definitely shadow knitting. (It truly is what I was going to say anyway….)
8Remark from Suzie — Thursday, 8/3/2006 @ 7:34 AM
Am I too new to this knitting thing to not know what Shadow Knitting is yet? Uh…yes! If it’s a planned design than great, but so far it just looks like random knits & purls which still is very cool.
I also (embarrassingly enough):oops: don’t know what the partridge heel is, but I definitely think it looks very professional.
I can’t believe you are doing two socks on two circulars with 2 skeins of color each sock.:shock: I love the subtle stripe effect you get from it and it doesn’t look grey on my monitor!
9Remark from ~Kristie — Friday, 8/4/2006 @ 8:51 AM
Well, gee, Kristie… I was born knowing everything! NOT:!:
To tell you the truth, I found out about shadow knitting, which is also called illusion knitting, because so many people googled “illusion knitting” and found me instead. So I had to find out what the heck it was!
Shadow knitting looks like stripes from the front, but when you look at it from an angle you can see a pattern. Here’s a link with a lot of examples: shadow knitting links.
Eye Of Partridge stitch is a slipped-stitch pattern than is sometimes used on sock heels instead of the more usual heel stitch. It makes a nice sort of honeycomb effect (I think). I particularly like the way it looks with multi-colored yarns.
Two circs/two socks/four balls of yarn — I spend half my time untangling myself! I wouldn’t recommend it.
10Remark from Judy — Saturday, 8/5/2006 @ 8:59 AM