Saturday, February 16, 2013

SOCKS, SOCKS AND MORE SOCKS



For years, I have wanted to move beyond knitting rectangles.  Yes, you know who you are out there.  We knitters of scarves and blankets who fear the word gauge.  Well, I am lucky to work with the nicest people in the world.  They encourage me to try new things every day.

My officemate (Westport's real knitting librarian, but she doesn't blog) has been knitting socks for years.  She even took 2 different sets of classes at our local knitting store.  But the class schedule didn't work for me, so she said she would teach me.  She gave me this pattern for a basic sock, and started a pair herself.  As we got to each new step, she would demonstrate it for me, and we knitted our socks side by side.  For the second sock, I did it on my own, but made sure she was nearby when I was doing the heel gusset.

The yarn does all the work here.  The pink/red ones are Regia and the blue/gray are Berroco.  I am on my third pair now (Stroll) and I have bought enough sock yarn from WEBS and KnitPicks to last for many years.  I even found a pattern in a new library book for a Sock Yarn blanket to use up all the leftover bits.  It will be a long time before I have enough for that.  Hmmm, perhaps a scarf instead?