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Socks.
I’ve been through a sock phase once already in my life. Around my 2nd year of grad school, I stumbled on an eBay deal too good to pass up. It was a baker’s dozen weird colors of opal sock yarn. You know those auctions…the ones where, yes, you CAN buy 13 sleins of sock yarn for an unbeatable price…but they’re all strange in some way. These were all different speckled ones. Here’s a pic of one pair of socks from that batch.
I started with the more normal skeins first. Gradually, I’ve traded most of them away.
Recently, through the influence of Jo and Jo’s toe-up sock class at KITH, I’ve started thinking about socks again.
I have a lot of sock yarn around. That just happens when you blog and knit and shop on Etsy…you end up with loads and loads of yarn of all flavors. One day I’ll show you my yarn stash…but this is about my SOCKS.
Here are the finished Happy Feet (yarn purchased at MisKnits.)
Just very simple toe-ups, short row (holey) heel.
And HERE I present the reason I’ve been so haggard the last two days:
(mama e ceyeber fiber…custom glampyre colorway)
I obsessively knit this pair of socks in two evenings. One Wednesday night and the other on Thursday. I just made them up as I went along. I love toe-ups, because you can just PLAY and it’s not over till you run out of yarn.
This is going to be my next pair (toe-up or course!):
(dome hill jaded)
This sock-knitting thing has the potential to get really out of hand!
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5 Responses to “My newest OCD habit…”
Oh wow, those cabled socks kick ass! If you ever find time to write up a pattern, I’m sure I can’t be the only one who would love to have it. That’s amazing to me that you just ad libbed the kind of design that would blow up instantly on Knitty. Toe up socks for the win!
Those cabled socks are amazing. I’ve never had an interest in knittings socks (too many stitches for such a small piece of clothing).
I also couldn’t but help notice that in the last pic, you’ve got another project on the needles. Could it be another new fantastic design?
I love the cabled socks, too. I am totally impressed that you knit them so fast with a baby in the house! You have my vote for a pattern for them also.
Love the toe-ups!
I love the idea of top-ups and have gone nuts trying to avoid the holes in the short row heels. I’ve tried all the ways to pick up the wraps, twist the stitches, etc. to no avail, still unacceptably holey for me. Now I’m using Wendy Johnson’s (wendyknits.net) ‘Toe-ups with the gusset on the bottom of the foot’ pattern and love it. Having a gusset on the bottom of the foot sounded ridgy and painful but it’s not that at all. It’s on her free pattern page and is worth a try if the holes bug you as much as they did me.
BTW, congrats on Miss Mazie sleeping through the night. She is such an adorable little person.
I LOVE that we got you addicted!! Ha.
Have you tried a toe-up heel flap? That’s my latest fave; and then I do crazy things on the heel flaps. I’ve learned NOT to do anything stranded on the heel flaps, however, because it wears through.
I love your cable socks.