I've seen lots of pretty socks out there that have picot cuffs so I wanted to give it a try. I'm not ready to cast on a new pair of socks so I just did a little swatch cuff. I followed the directions here except I did not use a crochet chain of waste yarn. I just used the "open cast-on" from Vogue Knitting. It was a lot more work than a normal ribbed cuff, but it's pretty. The drawbacks of the picot cuff are that it's thicker (there are two layers of yarn for a few rows), inelastic, and can flare out from the leg a bit. All of these mean that the socks could be slouchy.
Thursday, September 21, 2006
Picot
I've seen lots of pretty socks out there that have picot cuffs so I wanted to give it a try. I'm not ready to cast on a new pair of socks so I just did a little swatch cuff. I followed the directions here except I did not use a crochet chain of waste yarn. I just used the "open cast-on" from Vogue Knitting. It was a lot more work than a normal ribbed cuff, but it's pretty. The drawbacks of the picot cuff are that it's thicker (there are two layers of yarn for a few rows), inelastic, and can flare out from the leg a bit. All of these mean that the socks could be slouchy.
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