The blue Sockotta cotton/wool socks were started before the 2010 Olympics but, sadly, I dropped a stitch and didn't notice it until the sock was bound off and they got pushed aside for a more patient day. I fixed and finished it last weekend so I could start the ones in the center with my currently preferred toe-up, one-at-a-time. I needed something to fall back on if I got too frustrated with the new method. The center sock is a wool/nylon OnLine yarn that, thankfully, is getting softer as I knit.
The green and black toddler socks on the right are from stashed Essential yarn from Knitpicks a few years ago when it came in 462-yard skeins. Sunday I buckled down and forced myself to learn two socks-at-once in daylight hours. Early in the summer I bought the books recommended by Mary and read them a lot, but hadn't tried the method.
It really defeats the purpose of knitting two at once to make them different colors, I guess you're thinking? I didn't have two identical skeins of any yarn, so I decided to use different colors of the same yarn. As it turns out, it's hell on the eyes to knit black /dark yarn, so teaming it with the green works better for tracking where I am. Another reason for using two colors was to track Sock 1 and Sock 2... I thought. It took a bit to realize Sock 1 changes with each portion of the round. Before that realization, there were quite a few gymnastic effects and frustrating moments when trying to knit the black 'Sock 1' first each time.
I'll have to work on these during lunch hours if I hope to make any significant progress during the month. My nights are mostly filled with what little quiltmaking happens in my life right now.
2 comments:
That's good progress for one day! It does kind of defeat the purpose of doing two at a time....you'll still have the knit the mates!!
All this talk in blogland about sock knitting is putting me in the mood. I've knit two at the same time, but not on the same needles. Maybe it is time to try that.
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