Socks and Socks

This past weekend we made our annual visit to the Wisconsin Sheep and Wool Festival. Do you remember last year how we took a class and dyed our own sock yarn? I did a post on it Here. When we were making plans for this year's festival I remembered we hadn't gotten around to knitting up our socks! I decided it was time to remedy that. Mandy isn't such a fan of knitting socks, but I could knit them all year! So I volunteered to knit her socks for her.

If you remember this is what the yarn looked like before being made into socks. I am sure you can  figure out who dyed what!

Here is my socks knitted . It is always so fun to see how striping yarn turns out! Becky was calling my yarn Watercolor, which made me think of a painting and Monet. So I googled him to get a bit of inspiration.

 I thought this pine cone stitch was very similar to water lilies and ripples on a pond. What do you think? Does it fit with my theme? 

 

Mandy wanted her socks to be knee socks, as tall as there was yarn for. I keep knitting until there was about four inches left.

I invented a new toe for these socks. The round toe is my favorite, but Mandy prefers a more square toe. Unfortunately, I don't like knitting the square toes Mandy usually knits. So I came up with my own way! It is kind of a cross between a rounded toe and a square toe. Mandy liked how they fit and they didn't drive me crazy knitting them!

Spiral Socks

 I was shopping one day with my Mom and this sock yarn just jumped out at me,

 so I had to buy it! I have not knit a pair of socks in a while.

 I saw a free pattern there that was for the Spiral pattern from Paton’s, but they had you knit it as tube socks. I did not like that, so I made a few changes to it.

 I like to knit my socks from the toe up. But I do not like double pointed needles, so I have sworn them off!!

  I knit my socks the magic loop method, this time I tried knitting them two at a time.

  

 I decided to  knit the slip stitch heel.  But I didn’t have the right amount of stitches!!  So I tried figuring out if there was a formula to use with my number of stitches. I had about 60 sts give or take a few! I thought I almost had it, but not quite!

So I googled it!! And guess what, there was a formula!! I was excited!   

Someone out there had figured it out, it is from Knot Another Hat  It is really cool and I love the heel!

I finished them last night !! 

Well almost I just had to bind off one sock today!  

If you would like to see more about the socks you can look at my Ravelry account.