Last Sunday I guided my friend Nic as she started knitting her first pair of socks. At first we were sitting on the grass in the Close but after an hour we finally admitted it was rather chilly and adjourned to a local coffee shop. I had described the pros and cons of toe ups and top downs to help Nic choose which method to use.
Nic decided on the toe up Widdershins method and I started a new sock as well to aid the teaching process. By the end of the afternoon Nic had a lovely pink toe of a sock and has knitted most of the sock foot this week. I was going to frog the green toe that I had started for demo purposes but Nic said she would like it and as the yarn is the Opal Uni that unfortunately is too itchy for me I thought that was a great idea. I spent the rest of Sunday (with a brief break for dinner) knitting a lacy sock. I found the lace pattern in a book from the local library and by bedtime I had knitted most of the foot. The pattern doesn’t have a name and I mainly chose it because it was the right size for the 27 stitches across the top of the sock. Since then I have knitted the heel and then added enough stitches for the leg part so that the pattern would repeat all the way round the leg. It took a bit of figuring out and as I work on dpns it’s a challenge if the yarn forwards/overs are near the end of needles but I think it’s doing ok. I will do a few more rows and then a rib and then start the second sock. All in all I’m quite proud of myself for figuring it all out by myself. I even did some knitting in public in the rec room at work!!
Last night I felt like a break from the slight brain strain of following the lace pattern so I finished the first pink/purple sock that I started for my other friend the week before. It’s got a pink toe, a purple foot, pink heel and a striped leg with pink rib. The other one will be the reverse purple toe, pink foot, purple heel and reverse striped leg with purple rib. I figure that in shoes it won’t be noticeable that the stripes are reversed but around the house she will have odd feet, which I think is fun. I do hope she agrees.
Tags: Lace Knitting, Opal Uni, widdershins
