Contrasting, coordinating and clashing!
Do let me explain..
The Sock Knitters Anonymous group on Ravelry has a challenge each month, and every other month the challenge is a mystery sock pattern. 4 clues, each released a week apart and this month it is slipped stitches in colour, aka mosaic knitting. I haven’t done any colourwork socks, and I haven’t done any colourwork projects at all, come to think of it, since a jumper covered in Llamas that I knit in the 80’s that didn’t fit. And so, in the spirit of challenge, I was up for it!
Here’s my first sock cast on and half way through clue 2, the leg.

Then, inpsired by some of the fabulous eye-popping combos that others were knitting, I decided I must have a bright purple/fushia to go with the bright sunshine yellow left over from the September mystery socks. I hadn’t got any, so I had to dye me some!

And then.. I was so inspired by the contrasts that I dyed some Smoothie Sock in lots of opposites. The combinations are endless, some bright, some more subtle, but here are some favourites..






and so they go on. This latest batch would also contrast rather nicely with some of the blues and greens from the last Smoothie Sock installment.
I’m also inspired to try Ysolda’s new mitten pattern in some of these combos – the fingerless version would be such a good way to use up sock leftovers too. I’m suddenly finging myself interested in colourwork! Who’d have thought it?