I hadn’t knit socks for a while but last year, I knit 3 pairs! Two pairs for the men in my life and one for myself. I owe my daughter a pair of ankle socks but I haven’t started those yet. Today, I want to talk about the socks for the guys. I knit them both the Coffee Talk sock pattern by Tracie Millar from the Grocery Girls podcast. I liked this pattern so much that I knit it twice…. Read more »
Posts Tagged: Socks
A Friday Finish – Take 2
Disclaimer: The interwebs ate my post from this morning… eyeroll, so I’m having to do a re-post. Gah! Apologies if you’ve read this stuff before and you’re looking at it again! Here’s Take 2… I finished something! Say whaaat!! Yeah, it’s true! The socks that were on my needles are done, done, done. Let’s totally not dwell on the fact that I began them ermm… last December. LOL!! These socks are for the hubster and I had him try them on after I… Read more »
Rainbow Stripes
A pair of Rainbow socks were one of the handmade gifts I made this Christmas. A while ago, I bought a few skeins of Knit Picks Felici in all their cheery gorgeousness and instantly knew that my daughter would love a pair in the Rainbow colorway. She’s one of those souls who keeps up a constant stream of chatter, always flitting about on her toes doing twirls and giggling incessantly about everything. She even giggles in her sleep and I definitely think she… Read more »
Cadence
After I finished my Stripe Study Shawl (still waiting on the sidelines to be blocked, ends woven in, photographed), I was hankering for a smaller project. I’ve been hoarding this skein of sock yarn from Sweet Fiber Yarns and it was time to just knit something with it already! This spring-worthy colorway called Grapefruit had to become socks with a lace pattern. I picked Cadence Socks, a free pattern from VeryBusyMonkey (Ravelry link). Turned out to be the perfect pairing of colorway + pattern…. Read more »
