Winwick Mum sock pattern Schafpate Yarn socks

These are my new socks. They took a long time to knit but I got there eventually. They seem shorter to look at than all my previous socks but fit fine when worn. Maybe it's an optical illusion due to the colours. Anyway they fit really well so I am happy with these. I  think with socks I have to just accept they take me ages to knit. But I love my hand knitted socks so its something I want to carry on making despite they are all really a very basic pattern. I have just started a pair for my other half and have spent a long time working out the stitches for his much bigger feet. I do not as yet know if they wil fit him but more on that later.

The toes are possibly longer and narrower than my previous pairs but seem ok when on my feet.

Definitely not quite perfect toes!

I also realised I have been doing SSK wrong for my entire knitting career after watching a Youtube video so have slightly changed my method. If you need to see it there are loads of videos on Youtube for this so I won't point to any particular one because I found several that were very helpful. 

This yarn is surprisingly economical because I have probably got enough left for a second pair - maybe a little shorter or just do contrast heels and toes. I do not usually have so much left. 

And these are so colourful! 

Thanks for popping by my blog and have a great weekend

Bracken

Rainbow socks

 

I am doing well with this knitting so far this winter despite my sewing has slowed to a virtual stop. Still nice to get some of these projects finished and I really needed this one.

These are my latest basic 4 ply socks from the Winwick Mum sockalong pattern. The yarn is from Lang and is called Parrot. Its a self striping printed yarn so the black bits that look like fairisle are printed on so all you do for these is just knit round and round. Its a very effective way to get patterned socks.

I made these a bit longer than the last pair because now I have a guage by which to work out how much yarn is really available. I still have some left over but can make what people seem to call scrappy socks at some point if I carry on knitting socks. Scrappy socks is when people just use up all their odd bits of sock yarn so you get some random coloured socks - but still socks.

Not the most interesting post really I suppose but I do love how these have turned out.

The stripes really do ( almost) match. I think they print this pattern on though rather than dye them. Otherwise I cannot see how they make this work.Though I think my tension varies slightly because the patterns on the two socks are just slightly out. Still not to worry. They are loads better than I would have believed possible 18 months or 2 years ago - before I learned to knit socks.

I actually just started a pair in this years Yorkshire Spinners Christmas yarn called Ginger but if I actually get them finished to wear at Christmas I will be ecstatic. So far it takes me several months to actually get socks knitted. I started these ones back in May straight after I finished the last pair.

 

My last pair of socks I knitted

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Still I very much like wearing these kind of hand knit socks so its worth the effort.

This pair also fit me the best of what I have knitted sockwise so I am happy with that as well. All the others are a bit loose. Looser hand knit socks wear out easier and the amount of effort involved I really need them to last around a year which I am told they should do.

 So now because I bought so called "Christmas Yarn" for my next pair of socks - right back in August - and its taken me till now to finish these I am desperately trying to get a bit more dedicated to my knitting and actually stick to just the one project because really that should mean I can finish the socks in time.

 Its just usually I have 3 or more things on the go and keep swapping around. I mananged to knit a pair of quite difficult socks last January as part of a New Year sockalong so it should be possible to get the one pair knitted to wear for Christmas. Anyway, thanks for popping over. I will blog hop and see what everone else has been up to this week after I finish this.

Happy weekend

Bracken