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Inspired
by the heroine of the ballet "Don Quixote" (Quitarea in the
original), whose traditional costume is a marvelous red
Spanish tutu with black lace ornaments, and whose big
variation is a flirtatious little number wirh a
fan.
(I'm not entirely sure this design is really a
sock. I have the oddest feeling it's actually a big lace
mantilla in disguise; but that will be an adventure for
another season.)
Features of the Kitri Sock
- Top-down construction
- Instep and ankle pattern: Fan lace; a scaled-down
modification and inversion of the old Peri's Parasol
pattern.
- Heel: short-row shaping, with a tiny embossed fan
on the back.
- Toe: The fan pattern extends to the tip and the
toe is shaped by the pattern decreases.
- Cuff: Twisted 1x1 rib, overlaid with beaded lace.
The lace is my own design, a shetland-style edging I
call Beaded Double Diamond; it's worked in black
Jaggerspun Zephyr, and the beads are a combination of
black and silver-lined garnet Czech glass, with a
"Tiny Tim" teardrop at the points.
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The yarn, still
in the skein, with an early lace swatch for color contrast.
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Sock in
progress, with lace swatch draped over the ribbing.
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Finished sock. (Not a great
picture. Still working on this.)
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The mini-fan
motif on the heel.
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The
patterned toe.
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Toe, head-on,
grafted just below the final pattern repeat.
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The
lace.
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