Check out some of the February socks.
Gwen’s gift to a friend, modeled by Gwen. Heather’s pretty red socks.
Eileen’s supersoft, supersock blues. Leslie’s red-toe socks for a friend.
Mary’s self-striping, zig-zagged socks. Joelle’s February socks for her husband.
Interestingly, the month of February has been quite a sock challenge for several of us. On more than one occasion, the socks have had be ripped out and reknitted. For a few of us, the casted-on socks were left unattended while our knitting attention shifted elsewhere. Perhaps March will be a better month.
As mentioned in an earlier post, I had initially planned to knit argyle socks, but lost interest when my refusal to create bobbins forced me to work with a million strands coming from a thousand balls. I’m exaggerating, of course, but you sense the frustration. I happily moved on to knitting Eric’s cashmere socks and finished them, procrastinating all the while, but just in time.
Generally, for socks, a very loose bind-off (or cast-on) at the cuff is important to ensure that you can get the darn things over your feet. One of the bind-offs I really like is the sewn bind-off.
When ready to bind-off, cut the tail so that its length is approximately 3x the circumference. With a tapestry needle and from right to left, weave the strand through the front legs of the first two stitches.
From front to back, return needle through first stitch. Pull through and slide the stitch off.
Repeat with next two stitches and continue as such until all stitches have been worked. Sew on, sew off.
The elastic created by the sewn bind-off is fantastic. Try it out on your next sock or any other edges and see what you think. It’s wonderful!
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I am sure I/2 a pair dosen’t count - rihgt?
Look all this I finished my Feb. 09′ socks is bragging. :}