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Preparing for Winter V

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  • [Deleted User]
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    WeegieWumman wrote: »
    Good on you, Mar.
    I can't remember the last time I saw a pair of home knit socks.

    Last time I did was around 1954, my late Mum (also a weegie) taught me how to knit in 1947, and one of our seemingly never ending tasks was knitting sock for my two horny-hooved brothers They seemed to go through socks at an alarming rate. I love knitting but the idea of knitting a pair of socks is just a no-no to me I think I would rather eat my own liver to be honest :rotfl::rotfl::rotfl::rotfl:

    JackieO x
  • mardatha
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    Sock knitting is huge nowadays Jackie, better wool and better patterns. It's all the rage in the knitting groups and forums :)
  • dreaming
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    mardatha wrote: »
    Sock knitting is huge nowadays Jackie, better wool and better patterns. It's all the rage in the knitting groups and forums :)

    I decided I wanted to learn to knit socks a couple of years ago so got the wool/needles/pattern etc. and so far have knitted 1 sock - not 1 pair, just 1 sock. I then got sidetracked into knitting Scandi-style Xmas baubles (book by Arne and Carlos) which my daughter wanted for her Xmas tree, and I never knitted any more for myself. I may try the other sock this autumn unless a new thing comes along.
  • THIRZAH
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    I'm nearly half way through my fourth pair of socks intended as Christmas presents for the family. Only one more pair to do after these -for SIL-but he's a size 11.
  • carrielovesfanta
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    mardatha wrote: »
    Sock knitting is huge nowadays Jackie, better wool and better patterns. It's all the rage in the knitting groups and forums :)

    It was MSE'er Foxgloves who put me onto knitting socks. I've even been making some to sell. Hubs and I will be lovely and warm :)

    I found it quite straightforward. I'm an avid crocheter but I have never really knitted. My mother in law bought me a book by Ann Budd and I just followed that. Winwick mum is very popular - you can search for her book online.
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    dreaming wrote: »
    I decided I wanted to learn to knit socks a couple of years ago so got the wool/needles/pattern etc. and so far have knitted 1 sock - not 1 pair, just 1 sock. I then got sidetracked into knitting Scandi-style Xmas baubles (book by Arne and Carlos) which my daughter wanted for her Xmas tree, and I never knitted any more for myself. I may try the other sock this autumn unless a new thing comes along.

    Oh well, at least you will still be adequately equipped when, as they say in our family, somebody is "mouthing off" about something and we all exclaim "oh do put a sock in it,"
  • mardatha
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    Winwick mum has a brilliant group on facebook. One Sockalong group and one nattery/chatty group. The Sockalongers can reach anybody how to knit socks :D
  • Laura_Elsewhere
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    I can't think what i did before I learnt to knit socks in my 30s... Looking back I spent a lot of money buying wool socks, and a lot of time complaining about being unable to buy wool socks, and darning the wool socks I still had...!

    Now I never travel by train without a sock to knit. People come up to me when I'm waiting on a platform sitting kitting and gazing around me, and tell me they were having a rotten day but feel much calmer now and the train companies should pay me to sit there and knit to soothe people...! It's definitely soothing to me, and I don't have to look much, so I can listen to an audio book and gaze out of the train windows...
    When I wake early, I often sit up and knit a bit of sock. It's a nice way to start the day, clearing my mind. Or if I wake in the middle of the night, I can knit for a while and then go back to sleep...

    I suppose it's a bit like meditation...
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  • dreaming
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    mardatha wrote: »
    Winwick mum has a brilliant group on facebook. One Sockalong group and one nattery/chatty group. The Sockalongers can reach anybody how to knit socks :D

    Yes it was Winwick Mum's pattern I followed and found it relatively easy, but unfortunately I have a bit of a butterfly mind with certain things and once I "learn" the new thing I want to move on to the next. Other stuff I can be very dogged about but it tends to be if I don't understand something I don't like to give up until I have researched it. I will, at some point, make the other sock, and hopefully more but I rarely wear socks myself as I seem to be very warm-blooded and pad around barefoot even in winter - and I am quite frugal with the central heating too so some of my visitors do find my house a bit chilly. Maybe I should knit the socks for them to wear when they visit?
  • fuddle
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    Mar you put me on to Winwick Mum. I can now knit socks... kitchener stitch is still a mystery but I got there by hook or by crook. I'm back to crochet socks. They aren't the same but I've found a pattern with a heel at least.
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