Blog entries tagged Socks

I'm Wearing New Socks

Shelley — Mon, 30 Jan 2017 01:40:51 +0100

Pattern: Univ...

I'm Wearing New Socks

Shelley — Mon, 26 Oct 2015 09:37:47 +0100

Pattern: Basic toe-up socks
Yarn: Regia 4-fädig Color in colourway # 3726
Size: 60 stitches around (to fit my feet)
Yardage: about 80% of the ball
Needles: 2.00 mm wood

I’m wearing new socks today. I finished them last week and finally found some time and light to take some pictures of them during Maisie's nap yesterday. Unfortunately th...

Matchy, Matchy

Shelley — Sun, 12 Oct 2014 02:04:13 +0100

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Stripy Socks

Shelley — Mon, 14 Jan 2013 04:06:16 +0100

Pattern: Basic toe-up socks
Yarn: Koigu Painter's Palette Premium Merino in P418 (blue) and P856 (purple)
Size: To fit my feet (roughly 8 ½" around the ball) - 60 stitches Yardage: about three-quarters of each skein
Needles: 2.00 mm

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I finally got these socks photographed and into my sock drawer over my Christm...

Christmas Knitting, 2012

Shelley — Tue, 08 Jan 2013 12:54:36 +0100

Before we get too much further in January I thought I should post the two presents I knitted this Christmas. Both projects were a bit stressful to work on but for completely different reasons. They were also both, technically, socks.

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Christmas Project Number 1: Hannah's Stocking

Pattern: An ...

New Socks on My Feet

Shelley — Wed, 28 Nov 2012 12:50:48 +0100

Pattern: Basic toe-up socks
Yarn: Lang Yarns Jawoll Color Akiton
Size: 60 stitches around
Yardage: about 80% of the skein (~335m or 367 ids)
Needles: 2.00 mm

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I'm wearing new socks today. These socks were complete, except for a couple of ends that needed to be woven in, way back in June. I was working on them when we...

Diamonds in the Fluff

Shelley — Tue, 10 Apr 2012 00:24:08 +0100

Pattern: Diamonds in the Fluff by Leslie Comstock
Yarn: Blue Moon Fiber Arts Socks that Rock Lightweight Rare Gem "Fire"
Size: Small
Yardage: about three-quarters of the skein (~270 yards)
Needles: 2.00 mm Knit Picks harmony

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I'm wearing new socks today. I finished up the second toe after breakfast and did a little ...

Almost a Sock (and Ollie)

Shelley — Sun, 08 Apr 2012 06:39:06 +0100

I thought it was time for an update on my current sock. I got past the heel this afternoon and am now heading towards the toe. I should be wearing new sock...

And Then I Began Some Socks

Shelley — Sat, 17 Mar 2012 09:17:56 +0100

It must be something about the returning sunlight. I just want to start new projects. Two days ago I started a new pair of socks. Not that I don't have two different socks-in-progress already going right now or anything. But I needed a new one. A bright and colourful one. A simple-but-not-plain one. An I-can-finish-these-quickly-so-I-can-put-off-darning-my-worn-out-socks one...

Christmas Knitting 2011

Shelley — Wed, 04 Jan 2012 10:38:40 +0100

Wow! It's the third of January already! I feel like I should do some sort of "looking back, looking forward" post but for now I'm going to talk about this year's (last year's?) Christmas knitting.

I only had two projects this year but since both of them were for Rob I had to get creative about when and where I was knitting. Project number one was a new pair of socks. Just a simple 2x2 rib around 64 stitches. The yarn is Socks that Rock Lightweight in "Manly yes, but I like it too"....

Update on the Shoreward Socks

Shelley — Wed, 07 Dec 2011 11:39:45 +0100

I thought I should give a little progress report on my Shoreward socks: I decided to go all out and learn something and did the gusset and heel flap construction for a toe-up sock. It went pretty well and looks nice. I’m not totally sure I like the look of the slip stitch pattern on the heel but it sort of blends into the ribbing on the back of the leg and I thought if I...

Rockin' Sock Club: September-October 2011

Shelley — Tue, 15 Nov 2011 12:30:22 +0100

I could probably re-title my blog "What I Meant to Post About Last Week". I went to knitting tonight and pulled out the sock I wanted to work on and realized I had taken a picture of it last Tuesday with the intention of blogging about it that night. I'm not really sure what happened but my guess is that I played a bunch of fetch with Abby and then fell asleep without remembering a...

Unisex Slip

Shelley — Sun, 16 Oct 2011 12:19:58 +0100

Pattern: Unisex Slip by Stephanie Pearl-McPhee
Yarn: Blue Moon Fiber Arts Socks that Rock Lightweight in Maia
Size: Small
Yardage: Aproximatly 80% of the skein (say 320 yards/2690 m)
Needles: 2.00 mm knit picks laminated wood

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Don't these socks look great with my wall? This is May's sock club kit all knitted up. I only m...

New Socks For Rob

Shelley — Tue, 11 Oct 2011 04:47:52 +0100

Pattern: Unisex Slip by Stephanie Pearl-McPhee
Yarn: Tanis Fiber Arts Blue Label Fingering in "Chestnut"
Size: Large (68 stitches around)
Yardage: about 90% of the skein (~ 380 yards/345 m)
Needles: 2.00 mm

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Rob had new socks on his feet when we headed out to Thanksgiving dinner last night. It always make me ridicul...

Begun

Shelley — Thu, 11 Aug 2011 10:49:43 +0100

After how excited I was about this yarn and this pattern when it arrived you'd think I'd have cast on my socks in less than two months but I got distracted and, though the ball was wound a while ago, I only just scrounged up some waste yarn for a provisional coast on. This is the first of my Unisex Slip socks in the Rockin' Sock Club May colourway Maia. The pattern actually cal...

Harvest Dew

Shelley — Thu, 14 Jul 2011 09:18:44 +0100

Pattern: Harvest Dew by Rose Hiver
Yarn: Blue Moon Fiber Arts Socks that Rock Lightweight in "Chickabidy"
Size: small (60 stitches around)
Yardage: say 80% of the skein
Needles: 2.00 mm Knit Picks Harmony

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Yay! Done!

A bit late for the knit-along deadline but that's okay. These socks came out really well once...

Do-over

Shelley — Fri, 08 Jul 2011 10:13:25 +0100

I frogged out the foot of my sock yesterday and started reknitting. Fortunately I'm still enjoying both the yarn and the pattern and it's going pretty quickly. I thought the elongated stitches looked kind of funny as I was frogging. I'm a little over half way through the chart for the point on the foot and there are only a few rounds between the end of the point and the beginning of the ...

Summing It All Up

Tue, 05 Jul 2011 10:22:33 +0100

Is it Monday already? I've been collecting things to blog all weekend but was so busy (or else so tired from being so busy) the whole time that I never really got past thinking "Oh, I want to blog this". But now I've got some time and I'm just going to mash a bunch of stuff together. There are a few more pictures over on my Flickr.

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Intrepid Travellers

Shelley — Thu, 30 Jun 2011 09:33:46 +0100

Pattern: Intrepid Traveller by Gail Marracci
Yarn: Blue Moon Fiber Arts Socks that Rock Lightweight in "Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test"
Size: Small
Yardage: about three-quarters of the skein (apron. 247 m)
Needles: 2.00 mm bamboo

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It still shocks me each time I see these socks and realize how bright they are, perfe...

One Sock, Two Sock

Shelley — Sun, 22 May 2011 03:29:23 +0100

Three sock?

I’m working on two different pairs of socks right now: the blue and pink ones are my March sock club socks – which I think I’ve mentioned before – and the autumn coloured ones are for the Quarter Two Knit-a-long with the Socks that Rawk! group on Ravelry. I started the KAL socks in the Vancouver airport and mostly work on them after wo...