Category Archives: Sock Knitting

October 14, 2021 · 8:54 pm

Sock Update

I have taken a little break from Miss A’s blanket. We went away for the school holidays and it was a bit heavy to take with me, so I dug out this sock (I started it back in November 2020). And since November I have ripped it back and started a plain sock (I wanted something super easy).

Since this photo, I have turned the heel and I am now working on the foot. It’s very satisfying to see some progress.

The yarn is beautiful, it’s from Louie and Lola and is Merino, Silk and Yak in the dusty rose colour way. I’m using 2.25mm needles.

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June 1, 2021 · 4:55 pm

Log Moderne

I am still working (monogamously) on my Moderne Log Cabin – two more squares and the border to go after this one.

I have joined the Bluestocking club at KDD and I am very keen to get started on the first pair of socks. Socks and 18th century women – two of my great interests!

My inkle loom arrived today too – although it does require some assembly.

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January 19, 2021 · 7:10 pm

More yarn – a souvenir

I have taken to buying yarn whenever we go on holiday.

I bought this one from Text and Co – a yarn and book store, what a perfect combination!

It’s Cowgirlblues Merino Twist (in the shorebreak colourway). I bought two skeins because each one is only 300m (instead of the normal 400 for socks), but I suspect I only needed one.

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November 12, 2020 · 6:12 pm

November Sock Progress

My sock is progressing. There is a 1×1 twisted rib and now I am using the leg pattern from Helen Stewart’s Vapour socks.

Yarn is from Louie and Lola and is Merino, Silk and Yak in the dusty rose colour way. I’m using 2.25mm needles.

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November 5, 2020 · 6:01 pm

November Socks are Started

I have started my November socks. This yarn is beautiful. It is a merino, silk and yak mix from Louie and Lola yarns in the Dusty Rose colourway.

I am doing a 1×1 twisted rib and then I am going to use the pattern from Helen Stewart’s Vapour Socks (it was part of her Handmade Sock Society 3 – I have purchased all three of her sock societies).

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November 1, 2020 · 4:33 pm

October Socks Are Finished

I finished my October socks yesterday (31st of October), just in the nick of time. The yarn is a malabrigo, but I cant remember the colour-way.

I used my standard sock recipe (top down and a heel flap and gusset). The pattern on the leg and foot I found in a Japanese stitch dictionary (See this post).

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October 24, 2020 · 2:19 pm

One October Sock Finished

I have finished one of my October Socks – and on the second I have started on the leg (it’s top down, so I have a long way to go!).

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October 12, 2020 · 2:22 pm

October Socks

I have started work on my very originally named ‘October Socks’.

The yarn is a malabrigo, but I can’t remember the name and I have lost the label (maybe Diana or Arco Iris).

For the leg and foot I am using a stitch pattern from Japanese Knitting Stitches – it has a 9 stitch repeat. It is hard to see in my images but there is a knot stitch and then a 1 stitch cable (alternating between right and left).

To fit the stitch pattern, I cast on 63 and did a rib that would flow into the pattern (K2, P3, K2, P2).

I learnt how to do the cable without a cable needle, by firstly using a cable needle and observing what was happening. This is an easy to memorise pattern and the sock is flowing easily.

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September 28, 2020 · 3:23 pm

Corona Sock Became Dotty Sock

My original intention was to knit corona socks, but it didn’t go well. I stuffed up converting from flat to in the round and decided to do something else – Polka dot socks.

The yarn is Malabrigo Sock (033 Cereza) and I am using 2.25mm needles. Twisted rib, cuff and a normal heel flap, heel turn.

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May 13, 2020 · 2:32 pm