My 12 socks so far

Hey all I signed up AGES ago, but have finally gotten round to posting about all the socks I have made since starting the project!!!




















Ian's Socks! (Jelliebean Yarns - Tardiss and Marine Life Yarns)




















Chris's Socks in Marine life Jelliebean Yarns





















Frank's Socks in Autumn woodland Jelliebean Yarns





















Dad's Socks made from yummy Wendy Happy yarn!!



















My Fab welly boot socks!! In the Scrumptious Fyberspates yarn!!




















Mum's fab Welly boot socks in the lovely Natural Dye studion DK Dazzle





















Granny's Socks in Jelliebean Yarns Peach Melba!!

Phew!!!!

so I'm caught up.....

7 pairs of socks!!!!

Which is probably about right for when I signed up!!!

I've just been too busy knitting the socks to blog them!!! That's my excuse and I'm sticking with it!!

I'm now working on the Monkey socks (free rav download) in Jelliebean Yarns A Perfect Shade of Autumn!

Ooo and Jelliebean yarns is half me and half Jen and available here!

March

Now they are done. My sweety is super happy and I am on to the next pair!
YAYYY!

Stats:
Yarn: Kiwi , from Nicole's store
Needles: US size1
Pattern: plain vanilla
Nitty gritty: Toe up, short row heel.

August socks? February socks?

I don't know what to call them. Since I started the #12socks project back in July, I have only completed one pair of socks (yet started five pairs). I was totally uninterested in knitting socks throughout the fall, in favor of other things that appealed to me. Well, as of Saturday, I finished three large-ish knitting projects in one fell swoop, freeing up much knitting time to get back into socks. I *must* get back into socks because

1) I want more socks!
2) Cookie A is coming to lead a sock retreat in Tofino in April
3) I'm way behind on this 12 Socks challenge
4) I have lots of sock yarn I want to bust through
5) I received Sock Innovation for Christmas, rounding out my Cookie A pattern book collection (2). 

My plan of attack is to knit seven single socks in advance of the retreat, which is now less than seven weeks away. Seven different Cookie A socks, seven different yarns. I'll offer up all these socks for display at the yarn shop so people can see what Cookie A designs are like and what the yarn looks like knit up! I'll knit their partners after the retreat and have seven new pairs of socks in the house just in time for summer flip-flop wearing weather. I'm rambling... on to the main feature.

This is a pair of toe-up plain vanilla socks out of Austermann Step. It has aloe and jojoba in the yarn for extra added softness. My husband has narrow heels, so the short row heel was the perfect thing. The socks I have knit for him in the past have been on the roomy side, so I'm getting closer to getting it right (I only started doing socks a year ago).

The self-striping of this yarn lined itself up just right, they are symmetrically balanced!

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: