I’m so slow at knitting socks, but love it anyway. They’re the perfect travel project so I’ve usually got a pair on the go in my little drawstring bag and have got myself into all kinds of conversations with strangers in public as a result.
The ones pictured you might recognise as “Hermione’s Everyday Socks”, and they were technically the third pair I ever made but the first two were awful and we’re not counting those. First proper socks, hurrah!
The yarn was a weird cone of nonsense that I’d picked up from a shop called Yarnia in Portland during a big month-long USA road trip we went on in 2015. Basically you chose your fibres and colours and they’d wind a cone of yarn to that specification.
Or, if you’re a wimp like me, you could just buy a pre-wound cone and trust it had the right stuff in it for socks which is exactly what I did.
These babies lasted me until late last year then started to wear through on the ball of the foot, I’ve kept them safe and can hopefully learn to repair them. Any advice in that area would be very welcome!
Hermione’s are my top favourite sock pattern, but I also like Zigzagulars https://www.ravelry.com/patterns/library/zigzagular-socks.
I’ve knitted dozens of pairs of socks but still have to try knitting two at once.
Ooh that one does look fun! I’ve got some sock yarn dyed for me by a kind Redditor for a gift exchange and been looking for the perfect pattern that won’t get lost in among all the colour variegation but as your excellent example there shows, this might be perfect.
I mentioned in the post that there were two pairs before these ones? What happened there was I bought the same (turned out itchy and horrible) self-striping yarn in two different colours and tried to make his and hers socks for me and the bf. I did those two at a time and honestly it put me off ever trying again! But maybe it was more the horrible yarn and the fact it was my first time, who knows. If you ever do try it, please report back 😄