I have a hole in my sock. My nice warm knitted sock. The pair I had only just finished when winter started.
I have a little left over yarn and know how to fix it but how far should I go? The fabric is wearing thin in other places too.
I never really appreciated knitted socks before coming to Canada. I always found them too hot to wear. Not so in this land of cold! This pair of socks have been worn almost constantly since they were finished, which is probably why they have a hole already (and having all wooden floors at home).
The funny thing about these socks is that they were a classic case of Second Sock Syndrome or SSS. I made the first one the beginning of 2010 and started a different sock instead of making a second! That next sock was finished and also never had it's mate started. So you could say I had a pair of socks, just not a matching pair! (Since then I have actually finished three pairs of socks - two were gifts and the other was for a KAL so they all had deadlines.)
Mixed in with my yarn stash that came over from NZ were my two single socks. It didn't take me long to realize that warm woollen socks were a good idea in this country, so I dug through my part balls, printed out the pattern and got knitting on the first second sock!
Then other, more urgent knitting projects got in the way of starting the next second sock. Until I got a hole.
Now I'm racing through the next one and already planning another pair! Hopefully I don't get SSS this time, but it seems necessity is a great motivator for me to finish!
Any one else had issues with SSS? What's the longest it's taken you to finish a pair of socks?
~ Amber ~
It's been a good week for fun packages for me! After the nice parcel on Monday, I got another parcel on Wednesday...
This was my 2nd installment in the
Vintage Purls Winter Sock Club. I was hoping there would be some colourwork in one of the patterns this time as I've never done it before and have been wanting to try it. Morag does a great job of her Sock Clubs as I found out in the Summer one and I haven't been disappointed yet.
In the package:
2 Skeins of VP Sock Club exclusive colourways - 'Top Soil' (brown background colour) & 'Beetle' (green foreground colour)
'Bug Out' sock pattern (exclusive to Sock Club members for 6-12 months when she releases it to the public)
A packet of knitting 'gift tags' with spaces to fill in the care details of handmade garments (very useful as I often gift my knitting and wash and care instructions always need to be given as not all wool has to be hand-washed)
A small packet of Cadbury after dinner mints (sorry, they didn't make it to the photo!)
Letter & details about this installment
Then today in the letterbox...
This is my 2nd installment in the
Knitsch 'Flights of Fancy' Yarn Club. Tash is running this club with two colourways each month and you either signed up to the 'Plan Ahead' (get to choose which one you want from a description) or 'Mystery Escape' (complete surprise). I signed up for the 'Mystery Escape'.
In the package:
1 Skein of Knitsch Yarn Club exclusive colourway 'Polly'
A very handy pencil with an Albert Einstein quote
A roomy WIP (work in progress) bag in a bright daffodil print fabric
Letter explaining the background for the inspiration of the month's colourways
(The pattern for each installment is emailed each month, a day or so after posting of packages so I'm still waiting on that to arrive hopefully tonight or tomorrow)
Anyone else get nice post recently?
Just a quick update on what I've been knitting lately...
This is the other sock for my sister. She was down for the weekend so I'd been working furiously to get it finished to take home with her. She didn't have the first sock with her so I couldn't get a pair shot, but at least I got to see they fit her!
This is where I'm up to on my Theodora sock (not a very good photo as it was taken at night). I'm past the heel and they're a nice fit - loose but not too loose.
The other thing I've been working on lately is a pair of mitts for BigMiss. It's her birthday this Wednesday and I noticed the other day on the way to the bus stop that she was hiding her hands inside her jersey to keep warm. I don't have any photos of them yet (one's finished and the other just needs the fingers done), but I'll try and get some modeled when she knows about them!
And I'm just about finished my pullover/jersey so I'll have the pattern up as soon as it's done and photo's taken (maybe this week if I'm not too busy with birthday party etc!)
Right, just a quick update. I can never find my needles and that's usually because they're all in projects. So I've decided to try and finish a few projects (or at least free up the needles in use).
So the first thing I finished was my Heart of Glass sock (yes, singular - not the pair):
The next project I tackled was a pair of longies that I was half-way through the waist band so quickly freed up the needles in them (I still have to do the legs so they're not finished properly either).
Then I decided that I would finally finish my sister's sock (yes, singular again - but only cos I want her to try it on before I do another one and find they don't fit):
And I've picked up my jersey I'm designing to do some more on that.
I'm also slowly working through the Olearia I'm making too:
But I've also cast on a new project too:
This is Theodora for a KAL with the Vintage Purls group on Rav.
And lastly, I started and finished (actually, ran out of yarn) a scarf for another KAL on Rav:
This is Urban Shells for the Budding Designers Downunder KAL. It was a nice change as it's not knitting, it's crochet. But I might be doing it again as it's too short for a proper scarf. It did it in Vintage Purls 4ply double stranded so I figure if I do it in single strand it should end up longer, hopefully.
Anyway, need to set the table for dinner before J gets home very soon so I might come back later/tomorrow and tidy this post up a bit.
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