FO #3, the pointelle socks

[flexagon]

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.

Comments

Knitting

[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.

Re: Knitting

[flexagon]

You find lace fiddlier than cables, then? I dunno about that -- it's just yarnovers. Maybe I say that because the pattern I did wasn't too difficult. I do prefer cables to lace, but I definitely prefer texture to plain stockinette. Much as I'm dying with jealousy to think of being able to knit a pair of socks in 3 days... sigh, I feel I'll never never be that good... :-(

Glad to have made someone else fall in love with the Hild pattern, though. :D I adore it -- it's the kind of sweater money can't buy, cable patterns like that simply can't be found on the racks. Definitely re-read my post about the swatch and my thoughts on the pattern before you actually start the thing; I mean the cable pattern is brilliant, but the size part of the pattern has quite a few weirdnesses.