I just launched my latest sock pattern. It's a stranded colourwork sock with a penguin design on it, which is where the name comes from. I've always been a fan of penguins. OK, they smell, but they're also cute and very entertaining. One of the highlights of a trip to South Africa in 2003 was a trip to Boulders Beach near Cape Town where African penguins nest. You can even swim from adjacent beaches and I was lucky enough to have a pair of penguins swimming very close by. So, it had been in my mind for a while to design a pair of colourwork socks with a penguin motif. I'd sketched a few possible designs and decided to swatch one to see if it "worked" in knitted form. I showed the swatch to my children to see if they could recognise the motif without being told what it was - a test of the success of the design. Instantly my two-year-old cried out "Look, Mummy! Wengwings!" I knew I had my penguin design, and I had a name for the pattern too.
As always, the pattern is available on Ravelry, and through the link to my pattern gallery and shop on the left.
As always, the pattern is available on Ravelry, and through the link to my pattern gallery and shop on the left.