This year it seems to have taken too long to knit a pair of socks. To change that I decided that in September not only was I going to start two pairs of socks but I was going to knit a sock a week. I did achieve that but it was at the expense of other knitting. (WIPs anyone?) And in each case it was easy to finish the first sock in one week but I had to push myself to finish the second sock in the same time frame. It is an exercise I will probably repeat but when I have fewer WIPs.
The theme for September was Art and Music and true to my own limitations I chose two patterns already in my library.
The first pattern was Flying Dutchman using some older yarn in my stash – I nearly wrote a separate post about this project as I purchased yarn to go with yarn and still knitted socks!
The light colour is a variegated yarn from Candy Skein and was the colour of the month in June 2016. I really liked it but couldn’t think what to make with it, so in September 2017 I bought the blue yarn to go with it. But I still didn’t make anything with them, until now. I know I only used about half of the blue and third of the variegated but I’m much happier having used them then waiting even longer for the perfect project. I thought this pattern was illusion knitting but it is all stocking stitch requiring turning the work every couple of rows. It wasn’t hard but I printed the pattern and crossed off each part so that I wouldn’t get lost if I was interrupted.
The yarn used for the second pair isn’t quite as old as it is one of the many skeins I bought in a closing sale in 2021. The pattern is SmokyMountain Rain and is named after a song and the yarn is from Oink Pigments.
So far I haven’t cast on any socks in October although I could find plenty of patterns in my library that fit the technique – cables. The main reason for not casting on is that we were away at the end of September into October and I didn’t want to think about which pattern I was going to knit and which yarn to use etc. And as I have all those WIPs to finish I was happy working away on them.
