Yesterday was the first day that I really managed to get in some quality knitting since my shoulder thing kept me from my normal knitting habit, and in celebration, I decided that I needed to jump right on in with both feet...or one foot rather, and start my first sock! Every girl (and guy) needs a bit of travel knitting to keep 'em occupied.
Since this is new territory, and I don't like to go into battle unprepared I hopped onto
Ravelry and found a pattern for Kristin
Bellehumeur's Toe up socks on two circular needles and Silver's Sock Class.
Sock knitting has always been something foreign to me, and I was seriously intimidated to boot. It's kind of ironic that I could drop everything and move to a strange town in a new state at the drop of a hat (without a backwards glance) & perform extreme feats of idiocy on a double-dog dare (no booze involved) , but the thought of turning a heel could leave me in a cold sweat!
Its a freaking miracle that I came upon this tutorial, and if you want to try the toe ups and are frozen with the fear, look her up and give it a go. I highly recommend it.
Anyway...so I managed to make it to the heel turn.
and guess what?
I had to frog it. I've gotta blame myself because the instructions were pretty good. My short rows unfortunately were not :(
But you know what? I'm not freaked out by socks anymore.
(at least until I start knitting em up for the boy's size 14's because
that's a whole
lotta sock! )
Since I didn't have much to show you when I started up the most recent pair of socks I've been knitting I wanted to wait until you could actually tell what I was knitting before I posted some pics. So here they are:
Here is the proof that I love me some socks and I loves me some monkey. I also felt the need to throw a 'lil bit-o-lace onto this kool aid dyed madness since we last talked. Is it worth the wait to see if unnecessary monkeys and random lace patterns will fall haphazardly in the the photos of knitting? I say yes! (and hope you agree.)
Ah, and we end our photo tour of the socks with the generic, non-monkey inhabited shot of the socks as they are in their natural habitat. Please exit to the left, and watch your step as the tram comes to a complete stop. And as always, thanks for visiting Skeingenius :)
