Socks

I agree you have the right not to like socks.
As for me , hand knit socks are the only ones I wear. I like that they
fit my feet , are fun colors and soft material and don't pinch around
the ankles. I also like that I can throw a pair of socks on one circ
and have a ready to go project. In college I sit during lectures and
knit, it keeps me busy and I pay attention to the lecture. Everyone has
a preference for what they like to knit and what they like to wear.

coggietm wrote:
In college I sit during lectures and
knit, it keeps me busy and I pay attention to the lecture.

Wow, you can manage that? I was always to busy frantically taking
notes.

VP

Good morning,
I will admit to not liking to knit socks very much. I am hoping for a
"wear your unmatched socks" craze to take hold because I will be right
on that. I make single socks and then lose interest. Knitting ADHD?
Yes, I know there is a way to knit both of them at the same time but it
does not turn me on either.
I like mittens, hats and fingerless gloves for my portable projects.
this Saturday, my 9 year olf GD is coming over . I'll be teaching her
to knit. And by golly, it'll be the German way. I knit with wool in my
left hand, can also throw with my right hand if absolutely necessary.
I must voice my praise for the new Bates needles available now. They
seem to be targeted to new, young knitters, with shorter length, funky
colors and lighter weight.
I'll report back on Sunday on how the lesson went.

With knitterly regards,
Antje is Die Wollhexe in Wayne County NY

Vintage Purls wrote:
Mary Fisher wrote:
They keep making me socks - but I don't wear them

Not even around the house instead of slippers?

I've noticed this new craze for socks to, I'm not a big knitter of
them. I don't much like double-points and I've tried the two circular
needle method but I still find that they are fiddly. I've got some two
needle patterns that I've made up though - much easier for a two-stick
girl like me.

I guess they are a popular project because they are very portable and
offer a reasonably degree of challenge (and thereby interest).

VP

Definitely wear mismatched socks! I wear my Noro "pair" with pride. And they
are cozy. Bottom row: http://www.georgiamorgan.net/html/knitting.htm

Georgia

"Wollhexe" wrote in message
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Good morning,
I will admit to not liking to knit socks very much. I am hoping for a
"wear your unmatched socks" craze to take hold because I will be right
on that. I make single socks and then lose interest. Knitting ADHD?
Yes, I know there is a way to knit both of them at the same time but it
does not turn me on either.
I like mittens, hats and fingerless gloves for my portable projects.
this Saturday, my 9 year olf GD is coming over . I'll be teaching her
to knit. And by golly, it'll be the German way. I knit with wool in my
left hand, can also throw with my right hand if absolutely necessary.
I must voice my praise for the new Bates needles available now. They
seem to be targeted to new, young knitters, with shorter length, funky
colors and lighter weight.
I'll report back on Sunday on how the lesson went.

With knitterly regards,
Antje is Die Wollhexe in Wayne County NY

Vintage Purls wrote:
Mary Fisher wrote:
They keep making me socks - but I don't wear them

Not even around the house instead of slippers?

I've noticed this new craze for socks to, I'm not a big knitter of
them. I don't much like double-points and I've tried the two circular
needle method but I still find that they are fiddly. I've got some two
needle patterns that I've made up though - much easier for a two-stick
girl like me.

I guess they are a popular project because they are very portable and
offer a reasonably degree of challenge (and thereby interest).

VP

OK, I'll bite. how do you do a pair on ONE circular? Is it like working on
two circulars, but without the pulling at the "edges"?

Georgia

"coggietm" wrote in message
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I agree you have the right not to like socks.
As for me , hand knit socks are the only ones I wear. I like that they
fit my feet , are fun colors and soft material and don't pinch around
the ankles. I also like that I can throw a pair of socks on one circ
and have a ready to go project. In college I sit during lectures and
knit, it keeps me busy and I pay attention to the lecture. Everyone has
a preference for what they like to knit and what they like to wear.

"Alison" wrote in message
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I like knitting socks because they fit me. Knitting a sweater for my
size is a very lengthy project with an awful lot of knitting.

It would be for me too but I don't mind that, I just like to have an excuse
to sit and listen to the afternoon play :-)

Mary

"Vintage Purls" wrote in message
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Mary Fisher wrote:
They keep making me socks - but I don't wear them

Not even around the house instead of slippers?

I don't wear slippers except in the caravans. I do have a pair, somewhere
....

I've noticed this new craze for socks to, I'm not a big knitter of
them. I don't much like double-points and I've tried the two circular
needle method but I still find that they are fiddly. I've got some two
needle patterns that I've made up though - much easier for a two-stick
girl like me.

I made my first sock sixty years ago for my brownie badge. We had to turn
the heel to pass. I don't remember ever knitting the other one - perhaps I
did because my mother and I used to sit and knit together.

I guess they are a popular project because they are very portable and
offer a reasonably degree of challenge (and thereby interest).

I enjoy a challenge but never attempt what would be the biggest challenge
for me - a garment made only in one colour stocking stitch :-)

Boring!!!

Mary

"WoolyGooly" wrote in message
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I burned out on socks a while back. I've got more socks in rotation
than I have days in the month to wear them, so I don't need more
socks. I don't need more sweaters either, but I persist in knitting
those.

I prefer knitting for other people because wool makes my torso itch :-(

Mary

"Wollhexe" wrote in message
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...

this Saturday, my 9 year olf GD is coming over . I'll be teaching her
to knit.

An 11 yo grandson asked me to teach him to knit over Christmas but I've no
idea what method I taught him. My mother always said that I held my needles
like pokers, I've handed on that method to several children and
grandchildren because I don't know any other way ...

I must voice my praise for the new Bates needles available now. They
seem to be targeted to new, young knitters, with shorter length, funky
colors and lighter weight.

They sound like several ancient pairs I have dating from the 1940s. Edmund
is using a pair for his project - a scarf for one of his younger cousins.

Mary

"Shillelagh" wrote in message
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"Mary Fisher" wrote in message
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It feels churlish to say anything so I don't and I'm taking daughter's
socks
with me and shall make a point of wearing them but I'll have to adjust
the
buckles in my sandals and know I'll be too hot in them :-(

Not knowing anything about your friends and family, I hesitate to say
anything.... but I know from my own viewpoint, I would rather know if
someone doesn't want me to knit for them. There is a lot of time and
money
tied up in knitting, and I would hate to think I had worked that many
hours
on something someone didn't really want.

You're right of course, I shall make the point, but VERY gently!

Perhaps you could just say you have enough socks for now, and have no more
room in your sock drawer.

I could to friends but not to daughter she knows I don't have a sock drawer
:-)

I suspect that she just enjoys making socks and ran out of recipients. She
sent a special one with no toe for when I'd just had surgery and had a hook
sticking out of the end of my toe.


Have a good visit, and let us know if you broached the subject or not....

I shall :-)

But we haven't gone - yet. There have been dreadful, damaging, storms today.
We're in Yorkshire where perhaps the worst has been, we'd have had to drive
over the highest motorway in England (where police stopped high sided
vehicles because of the danger) and over one of the Brecon Beacons in Wales,
an even higher mountain which is bleak and bare at all times, and along the
Wye Valley in Wales which often floods ... Spouse just didn't want to risk
it. He was right, of course.

Mary

Shelagh