Rainbow socks for everyone!

I've gotten request about if it's okay to make Viisukat with other countries flags. Of course it is. Rainbow socks for everyone!

Now I've added a separate file of 23 flags of some other countries that are also participating Eurovision Song Contest 2019. In alphabetical order: Armenia, Austria, Belgium, Czech Republic, Denmark, Estonia, France, Georgia, Germany, Greece, Hungary, Iceland, Ireland, Italy, Latvia, Lithuania, Netherlands, Norway, Poland, Romania, Russia, Sweden and Switzerland.

Viisukat Extra Charts can be downloaded alongside with Viisukat from my Ravelry pattern store here!

I've made my Viisukat socks with Filcolana Arwetta Classic. The yarn is really durable and it has lasted out to over 3 pairs in adult sizes! For the 4th pair I finally had to start a couple of new skeins. For just one pair you'll need about 40 meters of the 5 contrasting colours, so not that much. So I managed to stretch out the yarns by changing main colour. So far I've always used a new rainbow colour as main colour.

If you're not interested in making a whole bunch of rainbow sock, but just one pair, you can by a Viisukat yarn kit from Ilo! The yarn kit is handdyed by Ullrike by Anki and contains just the amount to make one pair of Viisukat socks. The kit is so cute:

I would really appreciate if you would tag your Viisukat socks when publishing on social media with one of the following tags:

#Viisukat

#ViisukatKAL

#EurovisionSocks

#adelheiddesign

Viisukat

In the beginning of February I stumbled on a short notice on Ilo Yarn stores Instagram account... Didn't think so much more of it except that the wish of merino wool was quite funny to me :D

But. My head works overtime even if I'd try to let things be... and suddenly my brain was full of ideas! Yes, I had a lot of ideas for the Eurovision socks! One idea got even to this stage:

Only to prove that my idea looked better in my head than as a knitted sock. Too much of everything: the old Eurovision logo, the new Eurovision logo, the Finnish flag (on the other side of the leg), rainbow flag, intarsia, stranded knitting, stripes and so on. I had to edit big time.

Obviously I had to keep the Finnish flag ;D And I really liked the rainbow colours, so that would also stay.

I knitted another pair with rainbow colour blocks and with the Finnish flag in a heart... and ripped it all! Because during the second sock my head was thinking of the rainbow stripes on my first proto knit and suddenly it hit me that would be the look I wanted.

Oops! There was a deadline! No big deal if it wouldn't have been the busiest time at work! Luckily I work pretty good under pressure and I met the deadline not only by knitting two pairs of men's size socks but also by writing down the pattern. Whooh!

So there's also the reason why the pattern has only a quick shot of the socks.

Pattern for Viisukat is available in my Ravelry store! For free ;)