Lang yarn men's socks using Winwick Mum techniques

These are not photographed in the best surroundings due to the rain when they were photographed so they are taken in my very eclectic and colourful conservatory. The light is OK its just the miss-matched furnishings!

Well I have knitted several pairs of socks for myself as well as a few pairs of child sized socks. Now my partner wants some and I wanted to get these done well before winter so I really went for it in knitting these. I even did a swatch to work out how many stitches to fit his feet - using the Winwick Mum stitch count method.

The yarn is Lang. I bought it in Krakow several years ago so have no idea of the current price and I also lost the ball band so I do not know the colourway. I am quite sure it, or a very similar colour will still be available if you wanted some. Lang do some amazing sock yarns and they wear really well. The pair I made for myself back in 2022 are still in really good condition despite being worn regularly. In fact I have made a couple of Lang sock yarn pairs and they all wear well but the 2022 ones are my first in actual sock yarn. I have since reduced my stitches to make them a bit smaller but even with the first pair being slightly loose they are still going strong.  My rainbow socks were also Lang and I bought all these sock yarns together in Krakow. That was my souvenir present to myself when we had a holiday there. I still have a couple of balls in my stash in fact that have yet to be knitted. 

Anyway after doing a swatch, in the end I needed 64 stitches to get socks to fit my UK sized 10 shoe partner. And you can see they do fit which made me very happy. You can never be sure until you finish this kind of project after all though we did do several tryings on as this project progressed.

I followed the basic sock free pattern from Winwick Mum so not too difficult and the only real thing is getting your head round using 2.5mm needles. That said its now my 9th or 10th pair of socks. I have actually lost count! Wow! Nit something I would have considered possible a few years ago.

Anyway here se my latest socks. 

Depending on how useful he finds them I may be knitting my partner a second pair. But I am waiting to see if these get worn first. My partner cycles in all weather's so they may get well worn this winter. We will see.

When I made these I wound each part of the sock yarn ball into two separate balls. With Lang thats easy because the centre of the 100g ball has a plain white bit and then sock 2 starts. So its pretty easy to pattern match these Lang yarns. You start at the centre of the balls though each sock on the ball band must be a toe up because I have all the patterns in reverse. Mine are top down socks. That really does not matter about the reversal of the stripe pattern though. 

My only annoyance? 

Well I did exactly the same number of rows and exactly began the yarn at the same point on the ball for both socks but the yarn is not exact in printing because one toe has an extra purple row to the other and I am positive its the yarn not my knitting. Still its not really such a problem and except for me no one will ever know. My partner cannot see it even when I pointed this out.

Thanks for visiting and see you again soon.

Take care

Bracken