Basic socks — comfort on down days…
Posted in Socks on January 8th, 2008
Well, I tried my hardest — those Zinc thingys, lots of juice, lots of water, staying warm but it hit and hit hard. This flu-ish/cold thingy looks like it’s here for a while. Since I’m not, as my son says, working with full thrusters at the moment, I decided to dig out some sock yarn I’d recently purchased and start a pair while watching Pride & Prejudice.
The first attempt with size two needles had a far too loose fabric. So, out it all came and now with size 1 needles, it’s looking much better. These are basic socks. Toe up increasing 4 stitches every other round until it looks big enough when I try it on my foot then knit until two inches from the end of the foot, do a short row heel (this time I might try something different), and then a 2×2 ribbing until I run out of yarn and bind off. That’s it; not much thinking because I’ve done this lots of times but I can at least feel productive while sniffing, coughing, and feeling like an undead who didn’t get it right.