Basic socks — comfort on down days…
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.
January 9th, 2008 at 1:09 pm
Hi Gayle,
I saw your post on DorothyL and came to visit your blog. Hope you’re feeling better. Nice to know you’re a knitter, too. A great book to read while needing some comfort and smiles is Mary Beth Temple’s “The Secret Language of Knitters.” Small book, big smiles and soooo true!
Knitting seems to be popular. An essay I wrote about knitting, which began as a blog and grew, was sold to Christian Science Monitor and in turn they sold it to ABC News and their affiliates across the U.S. have posted it on their websites. It is amazing to see people so interested in an essay about knitting! It began as a kind of ‘comfort’ for me. Maybe it will make you feel better, too.
http://www.csmonitor.com/2007/1205/p19s01-hfes.html
Dawn
February 10th, 2008 at 3:20 am
I’m a beginner and have never knit socks yet – I want to learn toe-up style, and your method sounds so easy – increasing 4 every other row til it looks/fits right. I like doing things that way, and wonder where you learned that method? So far, the toe-up instructions I’ve seen are either complex or starting with a square or something.
I also want to learn to knit socks on either 1 long circular needle or 2 circulars – and have books on both ways.
If you don’t use a pattern, could you describe how you do the toe?
Thanks.