WIP: Mesh Socks
I'm going to do an experiment. I've been sharing projects that I've completed, which is great, but maybe some people would like to see the process. So, I'd like to show you my WIPs, my Works In Progress.
I always have about five yarn projects and one cross-stitch project going at once and I alternate which one I'm working on so I don't stagnate on any of them. Right now I'm working on a cross-stitch picture of a woman watering a window box (it sounds really boring but it's very pretty), a crochet cardigan, a knitted ribbed shirt, a pair of knitted socks, a knitted scarf, and a knitted poncho.
This time I'll show you the socks I'm working on. They're adapted from my basic sock pattern, seen best my post titled "Basic Socks!" Click the title to have a look. I added the "Mesh Pattern 1" from Vogue Knitting's Stitchionary Volume One: Knit and Purl, reviewed here.
I'm not sure what yarn this is. I got it in a package of several skeins of yarn for $5 at Goodwill and it came without a label. It seems to be acrylic and is pretty soft. It's a light weight yarn instead of my usual worsted so I had to adjust my pattern. Basically, I made a wild guess. I hope I'm right. I won't be able to test how the sock fits until I'm past the ball of the foot because of the rigidity of the needles.
I'm about halfway done with the first sock. When a sock is knit, it's broken up into several pieces: the leg, the heel, the gusset (basically the awkward part around the ankle), the foot, and the toe. In 99% of sock patterns, they're knit in that order. I just started the foot.
Once I've completed this sock, I get to start all over again! That's the sucky part about knitting socks. There's actually a technique involving circular needles that allows a knitter to knit both socks at once. I've never read much into that, but it's intriguing.
I'm hoping I get these socks done before it gets too chilly to wear them. I think they'll be really cute!
I always have about five yarn projects and one cross-stitch project going at once and I alternate which one I'm working on so I don't stagnate on any of them. Right now I'm working on a cross-stitch picture of a woman watering a window box (it sounds really boring but it's very pretty), a crochet cardigan, a knitted ribbed shirt, a pair of knitted socks, a knitted scarf, and a knitted poncho.
This time I'll show you the socks I'm working on. They're adapted from my basic sock pattern, seen best my post titled "Basic Socks!" Click the title to have a look. I added the "Mesh Pattern 1" from Vogue Knitting's Stitchionary Volume One: Knit and Purl, reviewed here.
I'm not sure what yarn this is. I got it in a package of several skeins of yarn for $5 at Goodwill and it came without a label. It seems to be acrylic and is pretty soft. It's a light weight yarn instead of my usual worsted so I had to adjust my pattern. Basically, I made a wild guess. I hope I'm right. I won't be able to test how the sock fits until I'm past the ball of the foot because of the rigidity of the needles.
I'm about halfway done with the first sock. When a sock is knit, it's broken up into several pieces: the leg, the heel, the gusset (basically the awkward part around the ankle), the foot, and the toe. In 99% of sock patterns, they're knit in that order. I just started the foot.
Once I've completed this sock, I get to start all over again! That's the sucky part about knitting socks. There's actually a technique involving circular needles that allows a knitter to knit both socks at once. I've never read much into that, but it's intriguing.
I'm hoping I get these socks done before it gets too chilly to wear them. I think they'll be really cute!
Photo Credit: Katherine Elizabeth
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