Personal Sock Club - 1 done, 11 to go!

A thing I didn't fully realise about my personal sock club was how much of an incentive a new brown bag was going to be to finish a pair of socks! I've almost flown through the first pair of socks (well, to be honest, I cheated a little, but anyway) and am so excited to be picking out another brown bag soon.

Here's the ones just done - Bartholomew's Tantalising Socks from Cat Bordhi's wonderful New Pathways for Sock Knitters: Book One. I highly recommend this book if you don't already have it!!

You can read more about these on my blog!

Yes, it's love, true love

I love love love this sock, this yarn, this pattern - so much so that I couldn't put it to one side while I knit on actual deadline projects. So it was finished at the expense of other things!

I've got no regrets - but sock two will have to wait!

Yarn - Koigu KPPPM bought in New York January 2007

Pattern - Cat Bordhi's Bartholomew's Tantalising Socks

More photos on the blog.

A pair of Monkey socks

I finally finished this pair of socks. I'd finished the knitting on Cup weekend but then they sat around for two weeks waiting for the grafting. My grafting and weaving in ends needs a bit of work I reckon. I'm never satisfied with either. But I am satisfied that these are done and finished with.

More details at Nette Knits

A Whole Sock!

Here's my first whole sock, a Monkey. Note that the little ball of wool to the side is all that remains of the first 50g/160m skein of Koigu. I was getting rather worried about making it to the toe and I'd already left out one pattern repeat on the leg for this very reason. For the record, my feet are size 9.

Now onto the other sock.

Here's half a sock!

I started this pair of socks on 11 October which was the same day that I joined Southern Summer of Socks. I'm using Koigu KPPPM. I love the springiness and stretchiness of it. It's another Monkey sock. I've previously knitted another pair of these using a rather unstretchy yarn which I was not too impressed with but felt that the Monkeys deserved another go as I liked the pattern. I'm finding that the Koigu is wonderful to knit with but I am finding myself wondering whether or not I have enough yarn to finish the sock. Time will tell on that one. Has anyone had any previous problems with not enough Koigu for a sock?