Two feet modeling hand-knit socks in lavender yarn. A dainty lace motif repeats up the instep, and there’s a lacy ruffled cuff at the top.
Rogelio was one of the earliest Jane the Virgin-inspired socks that I had a clear concept of - given his flair for the dramatic, and the flowy shirts he wears as part of his role as Santos, it seemed only natural to give him something lacy and frilly to match his bold personality and over-the-top costumes!
For the lace pattern on the instep, I turned to my stitch dictionaries. I wanted something with a short-ish repeat, and the design I settled on is predictable enough that it’s not too hard to memorize either! The lace repeat itself is only 8 rounds, but it’s doubled by the addition of the lacy ribbing. The lacy ribbing is from one of the Japanese stitch dictionaries - I love it because it still functions like twisted rib, which is a lovely addition on its own, but adds a simple-yet-effective flair with the alternating lacy parts! During testing I realized the 16 round chart, complete with the ribbing columns for each sides, had been shrunk down a bit too much for some folks, so I added a page that just has that chart blown up as big as it will go. If you find yourself straining to see the instep chart, I hope that addition is useful to you!
The ruffle was the most challenging part for me, mostly because I’ve never knit one before! I’ll admit - my personal style is such that I just don’t wear ruffles. However, I feel like the concept really required it, so I learned a new skill! The ruffle design is an amalgamation of a few different ruffle designs I saw both on other socks and in stitch dictionaries, and is hopefully pretty straightforward to knit. That said - if you’re like me and don’t particularly want to knit a ruffle, the pattern tells you where to bind off after you’ve worked the ribbing.
Rogelio de la Vega saying “A hug from Rogelio is like a rabbit’s foot: lucky, rare, and soft to the touch.”
For the color choice, though the rest of my JTV socks will be in either blue-teal-aqua or coral-pink-red to match the strong color themes of the show, for my man Rogelio I had to use lavender. After all, he doesn’t pop in peach!
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