December 9th–Nine Socks

I have now finished nine of these socks.

Could I be making an Advent calendar?

Are these a birthday present for my son Greg whose birthday is December 9th?

Why am I knitting single socks instead of pairs?

Time will tell!

Saturday Sock

Another sock finished.

Hope to finish many more by Christmas!

Scrappy Socks

I just finished another pair of socks. I decided it might be fun to use some of the leftovers from other pairs of socks.

I don’t make my legs of my socks as long as most people do so I always have a lot left.

I completely used up the leftovers from 4 pair and started on the 5th with the blue.

I am not really excited about them as I thought I would be.

I have enough sock yarn for maybe 20 or more pair so why am I using leftovers? Beats me!

I am going to see if I can come up with some other way to use leftover sock yarns.

I’m ready to knit another pair that is ALL one color!

Vintage Kitchen Socks

I love the names Emily Parson chooses for her hand dyed sock yarns.

This coloration would suggest a Vintage Kitchen to anyone who sees it in person.

My colors are as accurate as I could get.

This was a fun one to knit and I think the name had something to do with it. I’m not a vintage kitchen person but I love when others do a vintage kitchen.

I’m more a Scandinavian clean lines person with antiques thrown in for interest.

I’m glad to have another pair of completed socks finished as out weather has changed to sock wearing temperatures.

Still Another Pair Of Socks Finished

This is another pair of socks that just needed minor finishing. I knit several pair in lighter colors to wear when I am in Florida.

Of course the yarn is Sophie’s Toes from Emily Parson.

NO, I don’t work for her or receive a commission. I just love her yarn and the colorations. I probably have enough yarn for 20 more pair. I just couldn’t help myself. She also has the cleverest names for her colors.

Crushed Velvet On The Needles

These are the socks I am currently working on. I’m almost ready to shape the toes on both of them.

I prefer knitting socks on 4 double pointed needles. I have learned I am more successful if I knit two at the same time alternating between them.

WHY?

Because my gauge can vary and this way I get two very close to identical socks!

The yarn is the color Crushed Velvet from Emily Parson’s Sophie’s Toes Sock yarn.

I love the names she chooses – so creative and so spot on!

Maybe I could hire her to name my quilts?

No More Cold Feet!

I just finished this pair of warm wool socks.

The hand dyed yarn is Sophie’s Toes by Emily Parson.

The color is Christmas Lights. It sure reminds me of the colors of the lights on our family tree when I was a child.

I have now knit quite a few pair of socks with this yarn and I absolutely love it - to knit and to wear.

I like a fine knit so I use Size 0 bamboo needles to knit socks. I think that is why it takes me so long to knit a pair.

Sometime today I will be casting on another sock.

And for those of you who are wondering…..I shipped my last eBay items to the happy buyers today. It was a lot of fun and a lot of work selling the clothes on eBay, but it is now time to move on. My closets are emptier, but not empty!

I work in my studio to photograph and sell. It is now starting to look like my art/quilting studio again. Yes, still a ways to go, but everything takes time.

A Whole Lot Of Knitting Going On!

I've finished quite a few things in the last two months and I'm going to show you some I haven't shown before as well as some I have.


I think I may have shown you these socks before - knit with my favorite sock yarn - Sophie's Toes. I wanted to make a pair for the Christmas season but not make them TOO Christmasy. I feel I can wear these often.


This is a Baktus scarf - an very popular style with knitters. It is simple - you only knit - no purls!
Although my friend Melody knit hers with one skein of Sophies Toes, I used about one and one third skeins since I knit tighter. Fortunately I had extra leftover from my socks.


In the background you see the dish towel I knit. It is finished and I have worked in all the loose threads.
I knit this pair of men's tube socks for a special man in my life. I hope he loves them.

It's a great feeling to have finished all of these things.

Our weather has been too warm to wear the scarf and socks recently, but I'm not complaining.

Merry ChristmaSocks

I finished knitting this pair of socks about 2 weeks ago but I saved the reveal to show you until today - Christmas Eve day.
I plan on wearing these later today.

This is the second pair I knit that turned out.

I have been wearing the first pair and they are perfect for our 32 degree weather here.

Hope you have a wonderful Christmas Eve and Christmas Day.

I forgot that you were waiting for a Christmas present. Here is your puzzle to entertain you and keep you warm!

SOCKS - Identical Twins!

We interrupt this post about my results in Jan's class to share the most exciting thing that has happened to me in a long time!



I finished my second sock today and it is the same size as the first. I weighed them and they are within a fraction of a gram of each other. There is enough yarn left over to knit a third sock, but I will save it for some other project.

Now that I know I can do it, I am raring to go on the next pair. I'll cast on for that pair this evening.

The yarn I used is Sophie's Toes from Emily Parson in the color Christmas Lights.

For those of you who wonder what the big deal is I have to tell you I knit another pair previously. Not ony were they too big, but they were not the same size.

If these look slightly different it is because of the camera angle and the fact that I haven't blocked them yet.

Soc-tober in Wisconsin

I decided I needed to knit a pair of warm wool socks before the weather changes for the season.


I love what is happening with them. What I don't love is the amount of time it is taking me to knit them. I am using Emily Parsons's Sophie's Toes sock yarn. The color is Christmas Lights. I love the names she picks for her yarns.

This is over one weeks work!


I am knitting these on Size 0 double pointed bamboo needles. I am getting a gauge of 7-8 sts per inch.

I am quite certain these will fit me perfectly.

The last pair I knit ended up far too big so I just use them to put on my feet while I sit around if I am chilly in the evening!