A bit of a sort-out

I've felt rather stale about my knitting because I'm committed to a long-term project (an aran jersey for my brother) and have so many partly knitted projects that I couldn't justify or even enjoy casting on anything new. I did some sorting and found two single socks that could be frogged and a pair of socks that had been virtually finished for many months. All that was wrong was that I had done a really bad job on grafting the toes. I soon had the grafting undone and done up again and here is an FO!

 

They are knitted in Oxford Kitchen Yarns sock yarn (citrus). I love the colour. I made up the leg pattern - it's just five stitches plain and one stitch of knit one row and purl the next (i.e. garter stitch). I like to do three stitches of garter stitch down the sides of my heel flaps. These socks were intended for my son, but now he's at university there's no way I'm letting him take them to the launderette! There's a lot of knitting in these socks - 2 mm needles and mansize feet. I'll see if my husband fancies yellow socks. He might just.

I have also picked up another pair of socks that have been hanging around for a long time. As you can see, there's not far to go now (on the second sock). These are Regia, and for me.

 

I'm now in the delightful position of being able to ponder my next sock project. I usually have a pair on the go. Now that I'm not commuting regularly they're taking a lot longer to knit, unfortunately.

I picked these out of my stash and have not decided which one to use:

 

From bottom left going clockwise, we have Sheldridge Farm Soft Touch in a gorgeous plum, Jojoland Melody in green and purple, and Trekking Maxima in ... well you can see the colours! I can't decide whether I want to do plain knitting and self-striping (Melody and Maxima) or a stitch pattern (Soft Touch). Or I could perhaps make another pair of Monkeys with the Maxima. Or perhaps I'll take another stash dive!

Comments

[dawn]

Weren't you knitting on those yellow socks months and months ago? Glad that they're finished! I'd go for a plain pair as you're doing an aran jumper, plain mindless knitting.