So over the next couple of days I'm taking a few days off due to the fact that quite unexpectedly I found that I could watch the US Open. I was SO excited to have accidentally stumble across the Open on SBS. I always get to watch some of Wimbledon and the Australian Open as I just love watching tennis. I have never been able to watch the US Open and when I accidentally came across the tennis on SBS well that was it for me, everything gets put on hold.

US Open

Sorry the photo is a bit blurred. And as you can see from the photo below the yarn for the second sock is still waiting to be cast on. So all going well I will be casting on for the second sock on Monday or Tuesday. This time around I also hope to video the steps and make it easier to follow along.

Yarn for the second sock

So to all the knitters out there have a good weekend, to all the tennis lovers enjoy your weekend of watching tennis. I will see you in the new week with my sock cast on.

Happy Knitting
Sharyn

For today's post I thought I would show you want I'm up to in my knitting over the weekend. It's not my favourite task and the only good thing about it is that I will have a finished pair of socks. I sometimes drag my toes when it comes to the finishing touches of sock knitting and with my current wip I struggled a bit with the whole knitting of this pair of socks. Finally though I can see the end of these and I hope my next pair will come off my needles a lot quicker.

Weekend knitting

So this weekend is going to see me grafting toes of my beginner socks and then sewing in the ends. I'm also hoping to get a post up tomorrow about the toes of our beginner socks as they are slightly different to what I normally knit. I'm interested to see how they fit and look and I may end up knitting them this way from now on. It's going to depend on how they look on the foot. Anyway I will explain more tomorrow once I have done the toes and can get a model.

Beginner sock ready for grafting

So that's my sock knitting for the weekend. What are you up to? Need help? Contact me.

Update: Ends are sewn in and toes grafted so I've finally finished and they are almost ready for wearing, just need to wash!

Finished

Just need washing

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