Dunegrass and hubbyhouse, 14, 15

I have had a really bad luck with socks this month...
First, I ordered some needles... I have extremely loose hand, so I need sock needles that are smaller than 2mm to knit socks with right gauge... Yes, yes, I know, I haven't spoken of much else this month.
Anyway, I started knitting Dune grass socks. The gauge is up the walls, but I adjusted the pattern. Really, not rocket science. I made one mistake though... it should have been 7n+1 and I made 7n+1 for both needles (I knitted two at a time on circular needles). Then, after the heel I should loose the +1 and have 7n stitches... I had 44, so I went down to 42. In the forming of the nice, nifty triangle in the back of the socks, 7 stitches are decreased. So I ended up with a sock with 35 stitches... for a grown man. Not even I knit that loose! So I tried to add the stitches, up to 49. Well... I suppose that would have worked, but I kept making mistakes, knitting wrong, dropping stitches... it was as if the sock was cursed! I have used two days to try to knit one effing sock leg! This morning I decided to give it up, and just knit the sock in pattern, no fancy heels and such. It took me like 5 hours to knit the legs to both socks. :->

I also made my dearest husband Hubby House Socks of cotton. Cotton is not very nice thing to knit socks with, it's way too sloppy and so, but he likes them just the way they are... too loose to my liking, with the stranded pattern too tight. Wool would be more forgiving... But - he's happy, I'm happy :-)

Now off to next sock project :-)

Very orange post :-D

February Lady Socks
Arthurian Anklets

Update...

Mercurial colorbands
slip stitch pattern
Morning Glory bed socks
Maple leaf socks - an exercise in tension, sadly failed. I just have to accept that I knit loose and get myself piano wire needles size 00000000000000.....
Crocheted socks
Multidimensional/modular socks
another crocheted pair
Then there should be a photo of two more pairs, but - I have deleted my One World One Heart giveaway sock photo, and I can't find the other pair with entrelac. Well, well...

I think these are pairs 4-11 or something like that... Not sure. These are from October to now.

Twisted socks...

Pattern: Deby Lake's Aran Twist - strongly modified
Yarn: 3-ply wool, plant dyed
Needles: 3 1/2 circular
Started... too long ago.
Finished: today :-) Yay!

Me too... first pair undone ;-)

I'm still doing the toes... I'm planning on knitting the gusset tomorrow, turn the heel on Friday and finish the socks on Saturday.

I'm not hurrying this :-) I'm knitting 4 projects at the same time and wonder if I'd start two more... I'd really need those things for my summer holiday... Then I'm crocheting a doily too... So I'm not going to take any pressure with these socks :-)

No, this is 52 pairs - a pair a week - not SOS most socks finished LOL

Ket's Sock Diary day I

I was accepted to Socken Kreativ Liste! I'm extatic! LOL

I have collected so many sock patterns I can't knit all of them during my life time... As if not all the over 400 free sock patterns on-line weren't enough, I just had to buy me Nancy Bush's sock books (only two of them >:-> - Vintage Socks and Folk Socks)...

Yes, I know, 400+ sock patterns will be knitted in 8 years if I do 52 pairs plunge each year... The problem is that the lovely, creative and generous internet community will have created other 400+ sock patterns available free... and the less generous but just as lovely and creative sock book writers have managed to write a dozen or more sock books with more patterns to knit...

It's amazing how something this simple and easy can be variated to that extend!

I'm happy, but you know... there's a slight panic knocking in the back head reminding of all the pretty, soft yarn in the world, the smooth, shiny needles and all the socks I'd like to knit in my life time... *sigh*

The Japanese sock pattern charts are interesting...
One can see very clearly the construction of the sock, and I suppose if it was drawn on paper with squares (I suppose that kind of paper has a name in English... graph paper?), it would be easy to create fair isle patterns or lace patterns on the sock...

My first project is Finnish, called "Little Birds"
The graph is a little similar... you really don't need to know Finnish to knit these socks. (Last in the pattern, on the right side of the last picture, is a link "PDF-kaavio" - PDF chart). My socks are going to be rather big... again.