The Joy of Socks
While I find myself caring not at all about my aquarium, I do find myself hardcore into knitting. I especially like to watch reruns of The West Wing on Bravo while knitting away. I’ve decided that I want to learn how to knit many more things than just scarves and hats. Of course I have also made a couple of hats and a scarf, but I find myself fixated on socks. I’ve made two pairs of worsted weight socks, fantastic for the cold weather I have to say. Socks allow me to use interesting or otherwise bold yarns that I would not otherwise wear. I splurged the other day and bought a whole bunch of sock yarn while it was still on sale at knitpicks.com.
My most recent project is a pair of toe-up socks in actual sock weight yarn on fairly small needles. Unfortunately I goofed a little when I was measuring just how many stitches were in an inch of my knitting suffered some sort of complete inability to properly use a measuring tape. It turns out that I made this current sock too big, by about ten stitches in width and length. It is wearable, but really quite loose. As I’m at the juncture of whether I rip out days of work and start over, or continue on making a matching loose sock, I’m quite torn as to what to do. It’s a significant amount of work to abandon if I’d choose that path, but making a second sock that fits poorly seems equally silly.
February 19th, 2010 at 9:07 PM
The stitches look really nice and even. You’ve got a good hand for tension.
Can you make some arm warmers for me? :)
February 19th, 2010 at 9:20 PM
Hehe, maybe once I finally make a pair for myself. I was again thinking about making arm warmers over the past couple of days, a superwash DK weight wool would probably be a good choice.