brown pink green socks
25 March 2008 by colouritgreen
Well this plan of having only five WIP in terms of knitting is working out, and I have now finished one of the smaller projects - socks. They are great - really comfy (please ignore the mud on my jeans and the wall that is part of our ‘make living room more pleasant project’!)
The yarn is from opal, but I lost the band, so cannot name it. I have a feeling the pattern was supposed to be uniform, starting with a certain colour, but as the instructions were in German (himself bought the yarn as a thingymas present), I have no idea. I like the random way they have turned out.
I’m silly really - resisted sock making for ages cos it was so fashionable. and I object to fashion (always feel it leads people rather than the other way around), but now realise how much fun it is - and a great way of using up enormous stash of yarn..
So now I can add to my list, and have chosen:
To make something out of ‘first attempts at spinning yarn’ which has lots of err..novelty textured bits….
After going a few rounds with the self-striping/patterning yarns, and never getting them to come out exactly alike, I’ve given in, and decided to live with socks that are fraternal, rather than identical twins.
fraternal
I like that….
They’re lovely! Well done!
I want to make some socks, but circular knitting scares me…
Heya Hamster - do you knit at all? cos if so the move to knitting on 4 needles is a doddle really.. The biggest problem i have with socks is the yarn is so fine, that if you do drop a stitch you have to peer to find it… then again.. maybe that’s just my eyes failing…
They are lovely. Have just put in an order with mother for her to knit (I’ve giving up on knitting for a while and sticking to seed beading) me some from my favourite sheeps wool.