Remedial
While I was in San Francisco, I worked diligently at keeping a good tight
tension on a sock, and it's looking good. This is OnLine sock yarn I got from Little Knits last month; it's nice yarn and my friend Lisa's suggestion to use ribbing on the leg and the top of the foot is making me feel better about getting a relatively durable sock from this. I think these are US1 needles.Beginner
And then, in spite of my warnings about being sock-challenged, my dear friend Madge asked me to teach her to knit socks. We've been working through the stages - cast-on, heel flap, heel turn, gusset - on and off for a couple of months, and today we *finished* the first sock, Kitchener bind-off and all. Woot!! Madge is a terrific pupil, and for a very first Kitchener, she was awesome: it looked great with nearly no snugging-up required. Look at those great Kitchener'd toes!!
So - here's Madge's first finished sock, in the blue; mine is the red one. We used worsted weight yarn
and size 4 needles/dpns. Our second socks both need a few more rows to get to the toe decreases, but they're right on track, and we are both really JAZZED!!! Plus - our socks *fit* us!!Madge and I are signed up for a class in Toe-Up socks from Cookie A, to be held July 5 at my favorite LYS, Unwind.
And, for some fun, I snagged this from my online friend Curlerchik:
| Your Power Element is Wood |
 Your power colors: green and brown Your energy: generative Your season: spring Like a tree, you are always growing and changing. And while your life is dynamic, you are firmly grounded. You have high morals and great confidence in yourself and others. You have a wide set of interests, and you make for interesting company. |
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6 comments:
Way to go Madge and CBM! Rockin with the socks!
Hey, look at our awesome socks! Yeehaw!
Thanks again for being such a great teacher, CBM.
I finished my second sock tonight; blog post tomorrow. And I only messed up the grafting once, when Tom was pestering me unmercifully. (so mean, to make me slip purlwise when I should have slipped knitwise)
I really like how your OnLIne sock is working up - yay to Lisa for the ribbed sock suggestion. Fingers crossed this means your sock gauge curse has been lifted!
You are going to love the toe up - it's my favourite way to do socks. What kind of cast on are you going to do - turkish toe or provisional cast on ans short row? (Go for the Turkish Toe!)
I agree that there is a peculiar pleasure in getting the sock thing just right. And once you get there, there's no turning back.
What a great teacher you are CBM! BTW another easy toe to try is star toe from Nancy Bush's book. I'm using that on my Monkey Socks.
I don't prefer toe ups bc I don't like a short row heel and doing that turkish co is just as much as a pain as kitchener. But it's good to know how-to.
Barbara, I just loved reading about your trip to SF and meeting Lisa and Marie and M. It sounds like you all had so much fun! I have never been to SF in an official, on the ground, shop the fiber way, but now I'm plotting some way to get there. ;-}
The socks are great! Congrats to you and Madge for getting that sock mojo working. I'm going to try socks. If you get a package full of DPN's from me, you'll know frustration set in and I mailed off the needles before I snapped them in two. HA!
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