So for today's post I thought I would post about my weekend knitting. I actually have two projects in my bag and that's unusual for me. I always just concentrate on one pair of socks at a time and then when I just have to sew in ends I will cast on for another pair.

Weekend Knitting

I don't have that far to go with the orange socks which were my current work in progress and I started the purple ones to guide beginner sock knitters with. The purple ones are going to be a bit slow as I'm posting each step for beginner knitters to follow along. With the orange socks I'm almost at the gusset and once I'm there I always think I'm on the homeward stretch.

Picking up stitches

I'm going to concentrate on these orange ones and hopefully get them done, if not by the end of the weekend then hopefully by Monday.

I had a nice comment by a lady when I posted about these socks before saying when she knits socks with bright colours she likes to knit stripes to break up the colour. This gave me some food for thought and if I hadn't been so far ahead with these I would have considered it. I had some navy and I like orange and navy together. My thinking was I would knit the legs in orange and then mix up the feet with missed matched stripes of varying width of stripes and different coloured heels. I got quite excited about it but then realised that I had already knitted it's mate:-(

This is the great thing about learning how to knit socks as you can make them any colours you like and if you really start to get into it, you will end up with lots of leftover yarn. And then if you are making them for family you can make stripy socks using up the leftovers.

So anyway lets see how I go this weekend, here's hoping I get them finished. Have a great weekend.

Enjoy your weekend knitting
Sharyn

Today I thought I would look at my current work in progress. It's a pair of socks I start making for my daughter but she wasn't happy with them so now they are going to my hubby. I was a bit surprise really that he said he would have them, I thought the colour would be too bright for him!

Row 2: Knit. How easy is that!

So I wanted to ask a quick question. Beginner sock knitters may not suffer from this but some seasoned sock knitters might. Do you suffer with second sock syndrome? I myself don't usually suffer with this problem but I have found with this pair I'am a bit. When this happens to you, what do you do? I myself try and just push through it and just knit, knit, knit. But with this pair it's not happening.


So if your a beginner sock knitter be warned this could happen to you, so be prepared. Also I always keep a note book with all my sock details in it. This way I can keep track and I know exactly where I'm at. I mark down every row I knit, so this way all my socks are always the same as each other. I sometimes found when I first started knitting socks that I couldn't quiet get the pairs to match. But now because I do it this way they are always a perfect pair. I have been doing it this way for a very LONG time. I have gone through a few note books!

 So here's hoping I can get back into finishing this pair of socks for my hubby and he will soon end up with a new pair of socks. Hopefully in the not too distant future I will be posting with an update on a finished pair of socks! Have a good weekend.

Happy Knitting
Sharyn