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Hi all!
First time posting anything on lemmy or sharing my knitting at all, so I hope I'm doing it right.
I've been knitting since the start of this year, and it's been mostly socks so far (7 pairs and a single if I'm counting right) with the occasional off-item thrown in (shawl, hat, decorations, a single glove). This months work is a fairly standard pair of socks as a gift for a friend, as well as a pair of big, over-the-knee socks with some simple cables for myself.
At first I saw this on my feed and didn't understand why a pair of high quality socks was worth posting. Then I noticed the name of the community. Holly shit! You knitted that yourself?!? How the hell did you make the calf patterns on the white socks. I'm blown away and I have to move on before I hyperfixate and spend the next week watching hours of knitting YouTube.
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Thanks for the big compliment!
That pattern is really just one of the simplest forms of cable knitting. Which is super easy, if you can believe it. I would say that if you can knit at all, you can also knit cables. You should try it one day. But without the hyperfixation. I know exactly what you mean ๐
Wow! Most people consider socks to be a pretty advanced project and shy away from them for ages, but you just dove right in there didn't you. 7 pairs?! Respect!
Both of these pairs look so heckin' cozy, and I'm in love with the speckled yarn on the long ones.
Gotta ask about the "single glove" though, I feel like there's probably a story there ๐
oh and p.s. I got overexcited and completely forgot to add...welcome to Lemmy!
Thanks for the friendly welcome ๐
Very early on I made the error of telling a friend that I picked up knitting and I jokingly asked her if she wanted a pair of socks. Well, to my shock she said yes! So I didn't have a choice but to dive right in ๐
And I'm sure I would not have persevered if I didn't have that "motivation". The first sock was so hard! Even just reading the instructions. Half a page of text for the heel only. And I didn't know what half of the words meant. I interpreted it some way, tried it out, it didn't look right, knitted backwards, rinse, repeat... And when I finally had a sock after many, many painful hours, it turned out way too big! But I learned so much.
My shy-away project is definitely a sweater. Every knitter needs to make one someday, don't they? They are so intimidatingly huge. Socks may be complicated, but a least they are small.
The glove was my the last project before I took a break that ended when I made these two pairs of socks. I'm happy with how the glove turned out. But I have to say, I didn't enjoy making it as much as I do socks. It felt quite a bit more tedious. Having to knit the fingers separately. Very few stitches per needle, so constant needle-switching. I simply couldn't get into that sweet groove that socks provide. But one day it'll get a sibling, I promise!
Wow! That's a really good looking glove, and the fit is perfect. I've never been brave enough to make anything other than mittens. So many little tubes. :)
Funnily enough my second ever project was a sweater, so I guess we both went in at the deep end. Best way to learn, though! ๐
Completely with you on gloves, I've done it once and then stuck to mittens because those individual fingers are just so tedious. Still, yours turned out great and definitely deserves a partner one day!
a single
a single glove
May I introduce you to...two at a time? And even toe-up with JMCO, which I find easier to cast on?
Thanks for the suggestions! I definitely need to try out some different techniques soon.
When learning to knit socks, I consciously started with double pointed needles and top-down, because I wanted to get the "classic" and "traditional" experience first. But I can already feel the downsides to doing it this way. For starters, I never get the right tension where the work switches DPNs, resulting in columns of oversized stitches.
And the toe was horrible in the beginning! Now that I'm doing the kitchener stitch it's gotten better, but I never to seem to get it quite right. It always looks a little off.. That toe cast-on in your second link looks so sexy in comparison :-)