A Bluestocking Knits

I think I’ve settled on a pattern for my exchange pal — Roza’s Socks, by the inimitable Grumperina, to be found in the IK Spring ’07 issue.  I had some trouble with the brioche stitch for a while, but it seems to have evened itself out, although mine looks more than a bit lacier than the originals.  I tend to knit very loosely (which I can never understand, as frankly I’m a very tense person), and the pattern calls for US0/2mm needles for the Shepherd Sock, but I really didn’t fancy having to search out smaller needles.  Luckily, we like lace!

On another note, I may also have solved the problem of the Elusive Purples.  My camera, a Canon PowerShot A520, tends to drain out the red tones from most purples, leaving them more blue than anything else.  I learned how to use the "snow" setting this past winter, and discovered the other day that the "foliage" setting indoors (go figure) got me a fairly true Blackberry.  The foliage setting did not work in this morning’s seven a.m. overcast light, but "underwater" did!  (The underwater setting seems to pull the blues out of foliage, though, as you can see in the sword ferns in the background.  But it’s the yarn we’re interested in, here!)