Socks!
I started knitting a pair of socks around Christmas 2007 - and stopped because I kept breaking my size 2 needles! My sister bought me a set of metal sock knitting needles for Christmas, and I quickly switched them out, turning my first heel on Boxing Day.
After which I promptly put them in my small knitting bag and left them. Until a few days ago.
I was spurred on by the Yarn Harlot’s post, Riddle Me This. I’m always so impressed by her sock knitting, by the fact that socks are truly a portable project, and, let’s get serious - I LOVE FUN SOCKS!! If I have to wear a pair of socks - which I definitely do in Canadian fall, winter, and spring, which accounts for about 5/6 of the year - they’d better be fun. My sock drawer is filled with socks that are pink, brown, blue, green, striped, polka-dotted, argyle, have snowmen on them, etc. etc. I have very few boring white, black, or grey socks.
So, after reading her post, I pulled out my half-knit sock. And tried it on. And realized that the foot portion was waaaaaay too big for my feet.
So I frogged it.
The Yarn Harlot was following a toe-up sock recipe, but since I haven’t ever even made a full sock before, I decided maybe I should follow just a regular pattern first. BUT, I liked the idea of toe-up socks - that way I could try on the socks while I was knitting them to make sure they fit. But how on earth do you cast on toes?
I used knitty.com’s Tiptop Toes article that details three different types of toe cast-ons. I used the Figure-Eight Toes - it was surprisingly easy! From there, I’m using Wendy Johnson’s Generic Toe-up Sock Pattern. I’m about 98% sure that I’m using a Socks That Rock yarn … but yeah. I bought this stuff in the summer of 2007 and I don’t think I kept the band label.
Finished Toes
I’m greatly enjoying my knitting time lately - and wishing that I had just a smidgen more of it!
