Socks from stash club

Moving right along....

2009-07-03T17:13:00.005+03:00

I finished my socks just in the nick of time for the Cookie KAL this month. Oh the pressure!
I don't usually do stuff like that but the lure of winning sock yarn was just too much. (not that I need anymore)
Alas, I did not win, but I have another pair of socks.
Pattern: Sunshine by Cookie A.
Yarn: Lorna's Laces 2--50g balls of Sunshine (how appropriate)
Needles: 2.5mm dpns
I did do mods though. I cast on 72 sts and did K2P2 rib which flowed right into the pattern perfectly. I kept the pattern at 72 sts through the whole sock. Cookie's pattern has you cast on 60st, with a K2 P2 K1 P1 rib then increase to 80sts for the cable pattern.
Way too big for me. So keeping to the 72st worked fine, and decreasing at the toe to 32 across the final cable was perfect.
All in all a lovely pattern.

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Jaywalkers

2009-07-03T04:08:00.003+03:00

Hi everyone! I haven't posted much here, but I don't really knit as many socks anymore as I thought I would. But I did just finish these beauties from my stash:

This is of course the Jaywalker pattern in Serenity sock yarn, which I found at Joann's while shopping with my mom. It is wool, nylon, and bamboo, and is part of the Deborah Norville yarn collection. She also has sport weight, worsted, and chunky, but they all seem to be acrylic/nylon blends. The sock yarn is the only wool blend in the collection. I thought it was funny that she's got her own yarn line too! I didn't know she was into knitting and crochet a la Vanna White. Those of you who may know her name but be fuzzy on 'from where' can investigate more at her official website. She's a tv presenter/'journalist'.

Anyway, I wanted to make socks for my mom, but she lives in Florida, so wool socks are not really necessary or desirable. In fact, the only modification I made to the pattern was to make the cuff only 5" rather than 7" because shorter socks are better for that climate. I also have some cotton yarn in the stash, which I'll use later, but this Serenity stuff is super-light, and really soft. It splits, but I love how muted the colors are. Even in the darker colorways which you can see at the link above, are all really muted and soft.

Anyway, the socks fit her and she loved them. I definitely am joining the ranks of the thousands of people who love this pattern and I'm sure this won't be the last time I knit it, since I still have tons of self-striping sock yarn in the stash, and was getting burned out with just knitting plain stockinette socks.

Pomotomus

2009-06-08T04:16:00.003+03:00

Pomotomus by Cookie A.
These were definitely and experience.

Posted by Knitobsession

February Socks Finished

2009-03-01T19:28:00.003+02:00

Yarn: Panda Cotton by Chrystal Palace
Colorway: Blueberries/Grapes
Bamboo/cotton blend, that I wasn't thrilled to knit with, but I like the colorway. Now that they are done, I'm happy I knitted them.

Been awhile ;)

2009-02-01T08:10:00.003+02:00

Yup its been at least 6 months since I last posted. I hadn't finished anything since then either LOL. I started a pair in July and only finished the 1st sock but I've managed to finish the 2nd and another pair since then. ;)

Here they are both made using Drops Fabel:

Da Boy's socks started in July

For a dear friend

Dawn ;)

A Simplified Life

First pair...

2009-01-26T16:55:00.005+02:00

My first pair for 2009!
Easy, peasy!

Pattern: My 3-1 rib Boot Sock

Yarn: 100% Alpaca (locally spun)

Needles: 3.5mm

I needed a quick fix, after knitting the coat from *&%#@!

Rhonda

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2009-01-26T16:22:00.001+02:00

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January Socks

2009-01-18T20:55:00.005+02:00

I think I started these about 2 months ago. But with Christmas knitting, I had a layover in Sweaterville and Scarftown on my way to finishing them.
Pattern: Monkey(without the purls) by Cookie A.
Yarn: Enchanted Knoll Farm sock yarn
Colorway: Wood Elves

Who else is excited about Cookie A. coming out with a sock book??

December Socks posted late and the beginning of January Socks

2009-01-14T19:04:00.004+02:00

I finished my Here We Go Steelers! Socks on December 27 just in time to have them ready to wear for the final regular season game and the playoffs.

Pattern: Judy's Magic Cast-on and Wendy's Generic Toe-Up Sock Pattern

Yarn: Claudia Handpaints, Colorway Steelers, 2 skeins

Needles: Size 2 32" Knitpicks fixed circulars to knit sock and Size 10.5 Knitpicks Options to bind-off.

Notes: Given that the Steelers have won the two games they've played since I knit these socks, I consider them to be a very successful knit.

I cast-on this Sunday morning for my January socks with some Noro Kureyon Sock that I had in my stash.

Yellow Stash

2009-01-01T03:42:00.003+02:00

Now that the Christmas knitting season is over and done, I am getting back to the sock knitting. I have chosen the next victim from the stash. This is a skein of Fearless Fibers 100% Superwash Merino Wool in the Citrus colorway.

I'm making a pair of Bayerische socks. I've done so much easy knitting this past year. It's time to challenge myself a bit, and knit up to my skill level. This is how the first sock looks, so far.

Happy New Year everybody!

Linda Jo
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Garngamen knitted 16 pairs of SOCKS 2008!

2008-12-31T15:19:00.004+02:00

Hi all - This is my 16 pairs of socks I knitted during 2008. I thought it would be fun to share my contribution to Socks from Stash! Looking back - it has been a fun sock-year, dont you agree? Im pleased anyhow! So some "judgements" on this lot.
1. Prettiest yarn - Noro Kureyon Sock yarn in the Socks Oak Leaf Sock and Slippery Socks.
2. Softest yarn: South West Trading Bamboo: In Pomatomus and Vortical.
3. Fastest fun sock - Vortical
4. Most surprising fit and simple pattern- Sideways socks from Drops/Garnstudio (in yarn Nickerjac) it really works.
5. and really fun lace is Clover socks and Seduction socks (and false cable).
Happy New Sock year 2009 to you too! From Garngamen in Sweden!

Oh yeah, I finished these.

2008-12-17T02:44:00.003+02:00

I finished these at the beginning of December. Just forgot to post about them here. We've been pretty stressed out at my house of late.

Opal 1292 Socks

Pattern: My basic top-down 2-circular needle sock pattern with the following stitch pattern for the leg and instep:

Rnd 1: K2, P2.
Rnd 2: Knit.

Yarn: Opal Petticoat sock yarn, 2/24 acrylic for reinforcement thread.

Color: #1292. Reinforcement thread is pastel mint green.

Needles: Size 2 Addi Turbo Lace Circular.

Cast On: November 12, 2008
Completed: December 1, 2008

Comments: I can't seem to get enough of garter rib patterns. They look so good with the self striping yarns. I made these socks just a little wider and longer to accommodate my slightly larger left limb and they fit really good.

Linda Jo

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Christmas socks

2008-11-18T15:22:00.010+02:00

I bet you thought I had given up on socks - it's been so long since I posted here!

The truth is I fell off the no-yarn-buying wagon and joined the Fyberspates self-striping sock club, and didn't dare pretend the new socks were "from stash"!

Since then I have been better-behaved, honest!

These are the Undulating Rib pattern from "Favorite Socks", in OnLine Supersocke Sport colour. Very stretchy, for my son's wide feet.

And these are for my daughter.

Colinette Jitterbug, in the new pattern Aethenoth - these are the first pair after the designer's own on Ravelry - woo hoo! As you can see, I had a nasty case of pooling on this one after a knot in the yarn turned out to be a join between two different dye-lots. Grrr.

Both of these are Christmas presents.

A third pair, for my husband, are halfway done. They are from stash yarn too, Austermann Step. He prefers long socks, so I had to buy two balls, but they are from different dye-lots so I have no right to expect an exact match. It's a Nancy Bush pattern, Highland Schottische, from Knitting Vintage Socks.

After the Jitterbug experience, I am quite scared of how differnt the second sock might look!

That's why I am knitting mittens at the moment! At least they are out of stash too....

The Next Sock Project

2008-11-15T18:57:00.004+02:00

I have decided what I'm doing for the next pair of socks. I've dug out my skein of Opal Petticoat in color 1292.

It's pastel shades of pink, blue, white, and teal, with dark bits of teal. Very feminine. I'm doing a simple garter rib stitch pattern. It's the holiday season. I need to be doing something easy and brainless with these socks.

Linda Jo

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Deep Forest is Done

2008-11-13T20:59:00.003+02:00

I have finished the first Xmas present. These will be for my daughters fiance, Frank, who I absolutely adore.

Pattern: My basic top-down 2-circular needle sock pattern with the following stitch pattern for the leg and instep:

Rnd 1- 8: K2, P2.
Rnd 9 & 10: Knit.
Rnd 11 - 18: P2, K2
Rnd 19 & 20: Knit.

Yarn: Fearless Fibers Superwash Merino Wool Sock Yarn, 2/24 acrylic for reinforcement thread.

Color: Deepest Forest

Needles: Size 2 Addi Turbo Lace Circular.

Cast On: October 25, 2008
Completed: November 12, 2008

Comments: I really enjoyed knitting this stitch pattern. I also am quite pleased with how well the yarn I used for reinforcement thread worked. It is a 2/24 acrylic, used on knitting machines (I have tons of the stuff in my knitting room), in a deep green that blended so well you can't even tell I added it to the heels and toes-except they feel a little cushier.

Now I have to decide on what the next pair will be.

Linda Jo

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Deep Forest

2008-10-29T03:59:00.002+02:00

In my last post I mentioned I'd had surgery, complications developed afterwards, and I was in bed recovering. I also said I was taking a break from knitting socks. Well, I am doing much better now, though the recovery has been a hard battle for me. I can walk again. That is the important thing. But I sure have developed a lot of empathy for folks who live in a wheelchair.

Because I'm feeling much better, my desire to knit has returned. And what will I knit? Socks of course! I decided to make a pair of socks for my daughters fiance, Frank (who I adore!), for Christmas. Over the past year I've knit him 2 pair of socks and my daughter says he wears them more than any of his other socks. He loves them. What's not to adore about a guy like that? (Besides, he treats my daughter like a queen!)

I've had this lovely skein of Fearless Fibers Superwash Merino Wool Sock Yarn in the colorway called Deep Forest languishing in the stash waiting for the perfect idea. Socks for Frank fill the bill.

It feels good to be knitting socks again.

Have a great day.

Spring Forward...in Fall?

2008-10-22T17:50:00.003+03:00

My Spring Forward socks: TOFUstie. colour Toot-Toot
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August and September Socks

2008-10-18T23:43:00.004+03:00

Hello All! Long time no see...

Having finally replaced the camera-to-computer cable that my cat so unceremoniously chewed, I am trying to catch up with my posts.

For August, here are my "Plain Jane," using leftover Essential from Knitpicks. Tabi toe-up (of course), with gusset increases on top of the foot. This was inspired by/adapted from a pattern on Knitty.

And in September, a pair for my DMIL for the holidays made in Trekking Pro Natura. It uses a simple k3p1 ribbing + a leafy pattern inspired by Peapod Baby Set by Kate Gilbert.
I also finished my October pair, which will be a holiday gift for DFIL--that'll be for a future post.

Happy sock knitting!

June Socks in September

2008-10-05T18:10:00.005+03:00

A long story on these socks! I got Melissa Morgan-Oakes' 2-at-a-time Socks and also Cat Bordhi's Socks Soar on Two Circular Needles, and I set out to learn . . . . Then thought I'd figured it out from Ravelry help but still got a jumbled mess. So after a long break, I knit these, using Caryn Lantz's "Simple Scks for Ladies on Two Circular Needles, and Regia Cotton Yarn Surf Color. I'm glad to have them as autumn moves in.
Finally I got some help and more self confidence with the 2-at-a-time technique -- hope to finish my next socks faster .

Somthing from the Stash for September

2008-09-30T02:32:00.005+03:00

At the beginning of the month I had decided to knit a pair of complicated cabled socks with a gorgeous semi solid yellow yarn. However, I had to change my plans and do something much easier, because I was going in for surgery to repair a hernia. The surgery went fine, but a couple days later I developed extremely painful complications. I've been flat on my back, in bed, on some heavy duty medications ever since. My brain feels like it's coated in a purple haze. Somehow, though, I have managed to finish the socks. That is something.

Opal Petticoat 1296 Socks

Pattern: I winged it. Basically my standard top-down 2-circular needle sock pattern with the following stitch pattern for the leg:

Rnd 1: K3, slip 1
Rnd 2: Knit.

Yarn: Opal Petticoat in color #1296

Needles: Size 2 Addi Turbo Lace Circular.

Cast On: September 6, 2008
Completed: September 28, 2008

I don't know what I'm going to knit from the stash next. I am seriously thinking I might just take a break from knitting socks until the meds are out of the system and I'm thinking clearly again.

Have a great day.

Linda Jo

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Sock catch up

2008-09-27T02:46:00.002+03:00

The last socks I posted were back in July. I have been keeping up with my stash socks. But apparently lagging in posting about them. So here goes. a catch up post.

August Socks (aka: Amie's Bday Socks 2008)

Pattern: "Hedera by Cookie A."
Yarn: KnitPicks Imagination in looking glass
needles: 2.0mm (us 0)
Started: Aug 11
Finished: Aug 25
I used 1.04skeins of yarn. Yep I ran out and had to go and beg another Ravelry user for more, since this yarn was unavailable at the time. I loved the yarn and will order more. Its so soft. and OMG warm.

Sept Stash Socks

Pattern: basic k2p1 ribbing with a traditional flap gusset heel and wedge toe
Yarn: KnitPicks Essentials in grass
needles: 2.0 mm (us 0)
Started: Sept 22
Finished: Sept 25
Running late into Sept and I still had no stash socks... Had been meaning to knit Nathan some socks for some time now. his last pair were 2 years ago. two birds with one stone. So these are kid socks. He wears a childs us size 9.

Finished Waving Lace

2008-09-17T15:26:00.003+03:00

Am I the only one still knitting socks from stash??
Here are my finished September socks, Waving Lace, done 2-at-a-time.
Beyond Basic Knits, The Great Pumpkin, size 1, Magic Loop.
Modified: Star Toe

They took such a toll on me, I'm taking next month off, going to do a "not socks" project.

Finished BareNakedLacy socks

2008-08-29T02:27:00.002+03:00

Here are my finished socks for August: BareNakedLacy, knit with TOFUtsies. The first sock took 3 1/2 weeks to knit, the mate: 4 days!.

I have this much yarn leftover, probably 1/2 the skein, I don't have a scale to weigh it. Would anyone like it? The colors are black, gold and burgundy.

Water Nymphs

2008-08-25T07:15:00.001+03:00

I call these my Water Nymph socks because that's the name of the color.

Pattern: Summer 2008 Socks by Wendy Johnson
Yarn: HL Miller Cheeky Monkey Sock Yarn in Water Nymph
Needles: Two size 2 Addi Turbo Lace Circulars
Cast On: July 28, 2008
Completed: August 24, 2008

I do not know why it took so long for me to make these.

Linda Jo

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Redo of February Socks in August

2008-08-25T00:21:00.003+03:00

My February socks were just tooooo big! I'm so glad I frogged them and made these, which fit just right and are fun to wear. The yarn is Regia Cotton Surf color; the pattern, Caryn Lantz's "Simple Socks for Ladies on Two Circular Needles." Yes, they're simple and comfy socks, made on size 1 circs. In fact, my next pair looks much like them, just a different color.
Congratulations to all you diligent knitters who have kept knitting!