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Everyone say hi to my first (and maybe last) pair of hand-knitted socks! Together they are FO #3.



Want more? I posted about them in more detail on my knit-blog, and I took a bunch of pictures, some of which involve both socks AND cats.

My main gripe about socks is that they take forever, and I won't even know whether I like them as socks until it gets cold enough to wear them. I learned a ton of things though -- these were my first experience with provisional cast-ons, lace, short-row shaping, tubular bind-off, and k1p1 ribbing (highly enjoyable, the hands get into a nice jazzy swing. It may sound weird, but I could have kept knitting the cuffs for a long time). Kind of a long list, in retrospect. I'm not quite sure why I decided to do these before starting a sweater... there's a sweater I'm in love with, which I already have yarn for and have already swatched for and thought about a lot... I think it had something to do with job-hunting stress, back when I was too freaked out all the time to enjoy reading on the bus. Anyway, I've had it with the small projects. Sweaters are the whole reason I decided to learn to knit, and it's time to make one already.

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Date: 2007-10-08 12:48 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] islenskr.livejournal.com
Hey, cool socks! I never got into doing the lace patterns. Too fiddly at this point. When I make socks, they're ribbed cuffs, then ribbed on the top of the foot, with an after-thought heel and after-thought toe. There's a type of superwash merino at Web's that is a bit heavier than the usual sock-weight-type yarn and it only takes me about two or three days to knit a pair.

Now that sweater pattern...Holy cow is that beautiful! I've just hunted up the book and found it at Web's, which is two minutes from the shop. I shall be buying it. And perhaps the yarn. Maybe today. I, too, need that sweater. Need.

Date: 2007-10-08 04:21 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] silentq.livejournal.com
I can't comment on the knitting (I tried to pick it up, it aggravates my elbow RSI, the way I was holding the needles at least), but I really like the photo. :)

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