2 posts tagged “sock”

One advantage to never being able to sleep normal hours (despite best efforts) is that it leaves you with ample time to knit more.  (When the lover isn't home - he doesn't take to well to the very bright overhead light being turned on while he's sleeping.)  I am semi-trying to get these socks done for mom before she leaves on her trip.  And I say semi-trying, because I think, "It would be nice if I did!" but I know inside that it probably won't happen, since I think she leaves in a little over a week.  I'll probably have one sock done by then, since I'll have to take time to look up how to do the heel and graft the toe.  (Graft a toe?!)  But I do have 5 of the 6 repeats done as of this writing!  The heel is near!

It's also too bad that I wasn't browsing sock patterns/yarns more, because I've found a yarn called Denali from Pagewood Farms that would of course be fitting since it's Denali and I think that the Misty colorway would be a nice... Denali-ish color.  Maybe they could be a remembrance sock for the after-trip.  I wonder if I could send these to her mid-trip?

But, again, I'm getting ahead of myself - I'm planning all these wonderful sock projects, when I haven't even finished one sock, let alone a pair.  I'm worried that I'll have such a hard time with some aspect of the sock that I'll hate it and that entire section of knitting will be forever gone for me.

I feel the same way about the sweater, but I'll post about that when the yarn is here.

After probably knitting in the wrong gauge (or just casting on too tightly) I've abandoned the Butterfly Hat, which made me very sad.  I'm in love with the yarn - Pure & Simple from Tilli Tomas in Deco Coral - which ended up being much more of a hot pink color than in the picture, unfortunately - but I still loved it, 'cause it was luxurious (100% silk) and not a color that I would usually get, so it was special.  I decided it would look pretty with the pattern, and was going to knit it for my Mom (since I decided that if she could wear a pink furry hat [whether as a joke or not, I don't know] she could wear this hat in a bright pink)

At any rate, that has been abandoned, and the yarn saved for something else, and I decided to take up my sock again.  I had decided to go through my rite of passage and start my first pair of socks - in a colorway that I'm not too particularly keen on, but they're being knitted for Mom, and these are more her colors.  I chose to knit the Monkey Sock pattern (since it's so popular, I guess it must be good) in Blue Moon Fiber Arts Socks That Rock (Mediumweight) in Lunasea.  And I was dragging, since I had a boring twisted rib for an inch... and it really just went so slowly, and when I decided to check, I was a little past an inch, so I got to start the lace pattern.  So much better!  Much more interesting and fun to knit.  I'm a little worried about doing the heel and grafting the toe... but hopefully I'll be competent enough to figure everything out alright.

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