#hand knit socks

[lightsandfire]

April socks done!

I had to take a week off knitting, and the two weeks around that week I barely knitted, since I have this weird radiating pain from the outside of my shoulders. I still managed to finish these though! And I'm very happy with them. I don't know what yarn this is, as it’s the oldest sock yarn I had in my stash (hence why I chose to knit with it now). Still the same pattern as Februari and March, and the same as May will be (which I just started on! Handdyed yarn!)

Thank you and see you on the next update!

[losttimesnail]

both knit socks i have finished from assorted scrap yarn... ft my cat, annoyed to be awoken via my duvet jostling (link to my crafting streams)

[trashpandacraft]

another entry into the endless discussion of how long it takes to knit a sock.

it's not bound off because i wasn't sure if my kid would want some 1x1 ribbing at the top, but they say no thank you, so this is it done. i bound off just now and it took less than ten minutes.

we watched the extended edition lotr movies over the last few days, and i knit this whole we watched. i started out working on a jumper, but by the time frodo was leaving the shire, i'd realised that i didn't want to be faffing about with underarm stitches when they were, say, in the mines, so i grabbed some sock yarn and cast on for mindless knitting instead.

i was knitting a little intermittently, since i can't knit when crying uncontrollably, and we didn't watch all the credits, and also i started a bit after the movie did. the movies are about 11 hours and 40 minutes, including the credits. so the sock, beginning to end, took less than 11 hours of knitting, and honestly probably closer to ten.

socks are fast and easy, i swear! let 2024 be the year you let handknitting socks into your heart!

[janerhoadesart]

So i’ve perfected my personal sock recipe.

I tried something out with smaller needles for the toe area and reinforcing the ball of the foot with a slip stitch and I LOVE how it turned out.

They’re sooo comfy, warm, and a little supportive. It’s only taken knitting like… 15 pairs of socks to get to this point??

Yarns are Patons Classic Wool Worsted in Brown Mustard and Dark Gray Mix.

[ceeroosa]

the sum of my accomplishments this month: a pile of mended handknit socks and a completed puzzle of Coast Salish artist Francis Horne Sr.'s work SASQUATCH.

you can find the puzzle here: https://nativenorthwest.ca/1000-piece-jigsaw-puzzle-sasquatch/

mending methods used: duplicate stitching over worn stitches, woven patch darning over holes.

supplies used: darning egg, tapestry needle, scrap fingering weight yarn in a variety of colours

[moonymoon90]

It's officially the first time I knitt something with my hand spun yarn!!!

My unicorn 2.0 is turning into a nice pair of socks, it seems a cloudy sky 😄

[hibernation-fibres]

Finally finished these socks!! :D

It’s been a long time coming - I loved the look of this pattern when I got my giant 100-projects book, but definitely wasn’t up to the challenge at the time. It felt great to come back to it and find that I could do it with relative ease! The slipped-stitch raised stripe technique is one I’ve done before on these socks, and I think the effect is so cool; I’ve been incorporating it into my own hat pattern.

These are so vibrant and fun, and I wore them to my graduation last week!

Pattern: ‘Slippery Slope Socks’ by General Hogbuffer - here on Ravelry - in Interweave’s 100 Knits pattern book

Yarn: Orange is Schoppel Woll Crazy Zauberball in ‘Orangerie’, white is Cascade 220 Fingering in ‘Natural’

[fossilknits]

gay ass socks (part 2)

a wild heel appears! and lots of pretty stripes!

these photos were taken (more or less) 24 hours apart - i've been zooming through this project and i thought it'd be interesting to see how much i was able to do!

the photo on the left was taken last night, photo on the right was taken just now. in the last day i've worked on these through six episodes of zoey's extraordinary playlist and two college lectures (although not necessarily knitting the entire time, so i can't make an accurate time estimate)

the heel was done, i think monday or tuesday night? it's a classic FLK heel, and it fits a lot better than the original version of these socks did, yay!

i'm starting to think about how i'll work calf increases into these, i've done some rough math and it looks like i'll definitely need to add like 12-16 stitches in at some point, i'm just not sure yet where or how. i have a ways to go before it's an issue though

thanks for reading!

[lightsandfire]

Socks!

I absolutely love knitting socks, and since knitting some lovely baby socks (link), I have fallen in love with cuff down socks. My goal this year is to knit a pair of socks each month, and so far so good! I finished my first march sock on the third of march, so maybe even better than good!

For both february and march I used the A Nice Ribbed Sock pattern on ravelry by Glenna C. I did modify the toe a little bit to my liking, see the february socks.

Here are my february socks:

As you can see on the left, the toe was too narrow and kind of stood out from my actual toes. I have always preferred a bit of a wider toe, so I frogged a few rows and tried again. On the right, I only decreased to 28 sts before kitchering the toe closed, instead of 20 sts on the left. I much prefer this feeling and look, so I will be knitting it like this for the rest of the year.

Here are my march socks:

Top left 26 feb, top right 27 feb, bottom left 28 feb, bottom right 1 march, finished march 2nd. Keep in mind, this was over an hour of knitting each day (basically all my free time outside of school).

This yarn is by Hetwolbeest, my favourite indie dyer (Netherlands based), although I'm not sure if she still sells this colourway (Plum on basic sock). I do think she has something similar in her shop right now though!

Still on track to knit a pair of socks a month, as I started on the second april sock last week. I can't knit a lot right now though, as my arm/shoulder/neck hurt quite a bit.

Thank you for reading :)

[losttimesnail]

handknit sock and thrifted shoes :)

[duhdumb89]

I have made one (1) sock. This was not hard at all! Idk why I never tried to knit socks all these years.

[strawberrum]

tbh I am sooo overwhelmed right now but I need to motivate myself to finish the toe of the second sock in this pair. firstly they’re so cute and I want them on my feets. second, I want to do a Christmas Eve (sock) Cast-On and I’m not allowing myself to cast on MORE socks until these are off the needles!!

[janerhoadesart]

Tried out a new kind of mending patch for knits! You just… knit a patch right over the hole. I think it turned out quite well, and I hope it holds up well. Very quick to do!

[ceeroosa]

wip wednesday

one day ill have a nicer background than a pokemon playmat and keyboard but ehh 🤷‍♂️

mending husband's socks! he wears them through so badly it doesn't feel worth it sometimes, but extending the life of them for even a short time feels good anyway. these are on their second mend.

techniques: combination of duplicate stitch and woven patch darning.

yarn: scrap, no label.

[elevenonehandmade]

Toestep Tabis: Another Pair

As some of you know, I’m an aspiring pattern designer. My tabi socks pattern, the Toestep Tabis, is my most recently published design. And even though it was published back in 2022, I still continue to knit it! Doing so keeps me in touch with the pattern and allows me to tech edit if needed. I’ve updated it once since publishing; I do my best to fix errors quickly.  This time, I knit a pair for…