Since I'm at it, or: February socks

Since I had time I thought why  not go ahead and get done with February's socks as well... I only bought one skein of this yarn, so short socks it was.

The end.. I'm done.. the next pair of socks going on my neeldes will be for DH.
This pair got done late last night. Woot woot.

Here are some pictures of my pair:

 The above is DD fave picture! LOL

Stats:
Yarn: Serenity by Debrorah Norville from Premier yarns in the Aquamarine colourway. This yarn is Super Soft!! I love it!
Needles: Size US2
Pattern: I found the chevron pattern in "Super Stitches Knitting" By Karen Hemingway, p.212/213
Nitty gritty: Toe up, short row heel, jadda jadda...

January socks

The first sock of this pair was at the heel when I last worked on it. Then I put it away until late today. I finally said I really should finish these January socks.
Said it, popped on my headphones and an audio-book and started working. I would have been glad just to finish the first sock today.... I knitted away.
Once the first sock was done however, the book was far from finished and I was really enjoying it so far (not so much the voice reading it and the inflections it gave the characters, but the story was quite neat).
I thought: let me just cast on the second and finish the toe today.
The toe was done in no time.... well I figured, the further I can get to day the less I have to knit tomorrow... let me get to the heel... by the time I realized it, the heel was turned and I was on to knit the shaft. Before I knew it I was binding off!

I think this was my personal best. For socks in a womans' size 7/7.5 .
These socks are for my daughter. She picked short ones, since she prefers them for around the house. Of course that helped tremendously to get them done quickly! LOL
Well, here they are now: January socks done and over with...

Stats:
Pattern: obviously just straight up k2p2...not much to it...
Yarn: Red Heats Heart and sole in mellow stripe (it has aloe in it and my fingers are a bit itchy now, since I am a little allergic to aloe, but  not terribly)
Needles: US size 2
Well, six down, six more to go!

December socks

So here we are, then end of the year.
I started the December socks at the beginning of the month. 
I can make it with time to spare!
Yeah, right....
Got the plan laid out for the socks (finally), got the yarn all ready, got the first sock done, then the needle snaps!
Oh! Great! Two sets broken in one year.... grrrrrrrrrrr...
I have another set in the same size, but they are metal and I always have a different gauge with metal compared to bamboo... so here I am on the second to last day of the month and only have one sock done. I am sorry....
I will finish them as soon as I have my bamboo needles (they are ordered, but not here yet). I get 15 sets of 5 :) Part of my Christmas present from DH.

I will however start with the January socks non the less on Tuesday! It will be a twitter KAL with a few other wonderful Twitter-knitters! Can't wait to start!
Oh... the December sock picture. I have one of the first sock :) I won't wear them until the second one is done, but you can see the general gist of the matter. I won't stitch on the skulls (you don't even see them in this picture anyway), I have found a few buttons that look cute on them instead!

 

I was going for Roller derby! Can you tell?

I will give you the stats along with the second sock. :)

I wish all of you a happy and healthy new year full of hand-knitted socks!See you then!

November socks

I finally finished these socks. They would have been done a while ago, but I was waiting for elastic thread... the thread finally came, but in white... so after a few days thinking about it and trying to make it work, I decided to just finish them and weave the thread in when it comes in black.... (This yarn just needs a bit help in the ribbing department.... elastic will help them stay up better)

Well here they are, my November socks!

Stats:
Pattern: none just cast on and knit

Yarn: Mystery cone yarn from stash

Needles: US size 2 

Nitty gritti: toe up -yet again- my own star toe for toe up socks, nothing special really....but I absolutely love the way they came out!

Pictures:

 Already cast on for December:

lost my mojo, will be returning

Hi there sock knitters et. al.

I was so excited to join this 12 Socks KAL and then only finished one pair of socks. I think about it all the time, am planning to get back to it and even catch up (with kids socks or something small). I really lost my sock mojo for a while, couldn't get interested in doing socks. It might have been the yarn or the patterns - I have three pairs of socks on the needles right now.

Then the crunch for Christmas began and the socks were set aside. I'm currently knitting up a bunch of stuff to sell at my LYS, none of them include socks. At this rate I don't think I'll be getting back to socks until December 26th at the earliest.

Now it seems our gal knittyornice must gracefully bow out of leading this blog, alas. We all understand, jobs, life, stress, it all gets in the way of what we really want to be spending our time doing. In fact, the rest of us have hardly been able to keep up with the project either! Well, maybe we needn't be limited to 12 socks in 12 months. Maybe just 12 socks period? So far I'm one for twelve.

Instead of feeling guilty for not getting socks done (maybe it's just me, I totally feel guilty), we have to look at our other accomplishments. We knitters have moods and phases. I'm in a beaded bag phase just now. Maybe you are in a sweater phase, or a shawl phase. And maybe, just maybe, some point soon we will all come back to socks. Then this blog will explode again and perhaps gather a new batch of recruits.

Finally finished October

After lots of knitting and ripping and re-knitting, broken needles and changing of mind I finally finished my October socks! :D

Here they are!

Stats:
Needles: US 2
Pattern: None, just cast on and went for it. Pattern stitch can be found in "Big book of Knitting Stitch Patterns" from Sterling publishing
Yarn: Mystery wool I got from a friend
Nitty gritty: Toe up, can you believe it? I can't! I'm a cuff down girl!  With my own star toe . Sorry about the pics not being all that... it's raining and I really wanted to get them done.

 ETA one more picture. We had a bit of sunshine today along with the rain... I think you can see the socks/pattern better here:

October socks

Ummmm... yeah....