Finally, I finished my purple socks. The yarn is a variegated that made strips when knit. I didn’t know that when I started as the swatch in the yarn shop wasn’t striped. So, nice surprise, since the pattern is a plain jane just knit’em one. The best kind of knitting when one’s brain is not […]
In between all the other things I’ve been doing lately, I’ve been working on these socks. I turned the heel last night. I was going to knit plain until one inch from top but just switched to 2×2 ribbing since I want to make them a bit higher and I hope the ribbing will help […]
I was thrashing my brain trying to think of a post and someone asked me how I did my socks without a pattern. So, thought I’d try to explain. When I first started with socks I followed patterns and then I sort of got the hang of it. Eventually, after reading several book and blogs […]
Today I sewed in the ends and finished a pair of UFO socks. These socks were the ones that I found moths had eaten a couple of holes in. I frogged until I got below the eaten holes, clipped out the bad yarn, reattached and started knitting again. I also had a brain storm and […]
Well, I unknit the sock down past where the moths had eaten it, clipped out the ends of the eaten bits, and rewound the ball. Then it was a matter of figuring out where I was in the process and continuing on. This project originally stalled because I didn’t want to do the usual short […]
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 […]
Well, denial — it’s not just a river in Egypt. Finally, my knitterly denial couldn’t be maintained and I had to admit to myself that the Honeycomb sock is just way, way, too misshapen and big for anyone for any reason. Maybe deep inside, I knew I was only fooling myself since I couldn’t bring […]
Well, having laryngitis does limit some of the things you can do and the cold that goes with it sort of implies that one should stay inside and not do all the yard work that’s been piling up. So, it was time to finish up the first of the pair of Honeycomb socks. However, once […]