Es war Liebe auf den ersten Blick
Thank you for all the imaginative names. Due to the variety and the originality - which also got to me personally - it was a tough choice for me to me. Until I read:
It can't be more "Wollmeise-r" than this. When I wear my socks in the future, I'll be thinking of Scheherazade and lofty palaces. I'll be testing whether the socks on their suitability for Flying Carpets and I'll be dreaming of Samarkand, where I would like to go one day so that i can ride on the back of a camel down the Silk Road.
Dear Birgit, I'm falling into a swoon; I llike the name so much and I'm so happy that I asked for help. Please, give me your address, so that we can take off together on Aladdin's tracks.
Completely orientalised, I knit the rest of the yarn into a Caliph-booty. Absolutely useless but in a moment of brillance it was donned with a small loop for the Christmas tree. Although, filled with lavender, it would also make quite a good guardian of my treasure: "Sesame, close your doors and do not let in any moths!"
And because of my fiasco with the computer last weekend, my Sleeping Beauty (Dornröschen) socks had to stay in the drawers, unseen and unheard. Too much of a shame for a century-long sleep and so I woke her up today and took a photo of her, genuinely to the style with "Raubritter" roses ("Raubritter", lit. robber baron - in this case, it's a German specie of rose, a cross between "Daisy Hill" and "Solarium")
Das Muster ist so alt wie Dornröschen selbst und heißt Glöckchenmuster. Zugegebenermaßen sind es Glocken die auf dem Kopf stehen und sehr gut als Blumenvasen verwendet werden können.
The pattern is as old as Sleeping Beauty herself and is called "Tinkerbell Pattern". Admittedly they are upside-down bells and could just as well be used as vases.
Für alle, die es noch nicht kennen (Copyright ist bestimmt keines darauf, es gehört uns dem strickendem Volke):
Maschenanzahl teilbar durch 5Runde1: *2M li, 1M re verschr., 2M li, 7U*
Runde2: *2M li, 1M re verschr., 2M li, 7M re verschr.*
Runde3: *2M li, 1M re verschr., 2M li, 5M re, 2M zus. str.*
Runde4: *2M li, 1M re verschr., 2M li, 4M re, 2M zus. str.*
Runde5: *2M li, 1M re verschr., 2M li, 3M re, 2M zus. str.*
Runde6: *2M li, 1M re verschr., 2M li, 2M re, 2M zus. str.*
Runde7: *2M li, 1M re verschr., 2M li, 1M re, 2M zus. str.*
Runde8: *2M li, 1M re verschr., 2M li, 2M re zus. str.*
Runde9: *2M li, 1M re verschr., 1M li, 2M re zus. str.*
Runde10: *2M li, 1M re verschr., 2M li*
And here is the pattern for all of you who might not know the pattern (there shouldn't be any
copyright on it, since it belongs to the knitting folks):
Cast on a multiple of 5 stitches
Round1: p2, ktbl, p2, 7 yo's
Round2: p2, ktbl, p2, 7 ktbl
Round3: p2, ktbl, p2, k5, k2tog
Round4: p2, ktbl, p2, k4, k2tog
Round5: p2, ktbl, p2, k3, k2tog
Round6: p2, ktbl, p2, k2, k2tog
Round7: p2, ktbl, p2, k1, k2tog
Round8: p2, ktbl, p2, k2tog
Round9: p2, ktbl, p1, k2tog
Round10: p2, ktbl, p2
repeat!
Dieses Muster hat seine Tücken, es entwickelt sich sehr breit und ist mit 55 Maschen immer noch reichlich. Erfahrene Sockenstricker wissen wie man bei der Sohle mogelt um die richtige Maschenanzahl bei dem glatten Teil zu bekommen.
This pattern can be tricky: It can become very wide and with 55 stitches, it will become extremely wide. Experienced sock knitters would know how to deal with the sole in order to get the correct stitch count for the flat part.