Cables & Corrugations

I find myself in the unusual position of being 100% completely and totally packed and ready to walk out the door when my dad gets here to pick me up. In half an hour.

So I figured I’d throw up my finished object post on the Cables & Corrugations socks!

By the way, since this is technically WiP Wednesday, I have one active WiP, and it’s the Noro scarf. But it’s a scarf, so it looks pretty much identical to the last time you saw it, just a few inches longer.

Anyhoo, onward!

This was yet another pair of Cat Bordhi socks from New Pathways for Sock Knitters. It’s the Riverbed architecture and is the one I hear people raving about most often.


I slightly messed up the toe on the first sock. I was supposed to rotate it 90 degrees, but I missed that instruction until I was about halfway through the foot. No way in hell was I ripping it back at that point! So I made the same design element on the second sock :)


This was my first stab at a braid cable, and there is at least one mistake in each sock. That I left. After the SNAFU with fixing the back cable on the first sock, I successfully dropped down and properly fixed THREE improper crosses on the second sock.

Then, as I was doing the EZ sewn bind-off on sock #2, I realized I had mis-crossed at the very top of that sock. Screw it. The damn mistake is staying.


Aside from the cable crossing issues, I really enjoyed making these socks. (SJ is right. It's very tough to photograph your own feet!)


The length of time that it took to complete these is very deceiving. I probably lost 10 days to my little stomach bug last month, but they were very easy to do and the second sock practically flew off of my needles. Then I ripped 6 of the 12 repeats on the leg of the first sock and completed most of it during the Monday night Penguins game. Stayed up until it was bound of and … tah-dah!


Pattern: Cables & Corrugations from Cat Bordhi’s New Pathways for Sock Knitters
Yarn: Zen Yarn Garden
Color: Aubergine
Source: ZYG Harmony Semi-Solid Sock Club/February 2008
Needles: Addi Turbo 16” US 1/2.5 mm
Started: 17 April 2008 (sock 2: 18 May)
Finished: 26 May 2008