Jan 7, 2008

Sock Progress

I have a little sock progress to report. I've been working on my socks and I started a new pair for Kaity using the leftover Cascade 220.

Here's my socks.

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They're coming along great. I have 11 more pattern repeats before starting the toe. Since there's only 2 rounds in a pattern repeat it should take very long before these are complete.

Here's the socks I started for Kaity.

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I started these last night watching CSI: Miami with Shawn. I'm using the last of 3 hanks of pink Cascade 220. Those three hanks have made Kaity's Palindrome Hat, Bree's Toasty Topper, Bree's mittens, and now I'm finishing it off by making Kaity a pair of ankle socks. I generated this pattern using Sock Wizard for Mac. I'm knitting these socks two at the same time using Magic Loop.

The cast on threw me off for a few minutes. Here's the one that helped me out. I also had to search for help on picking up the stitches for the gusset. I didn't work it exactly the same as the tutorial(pdf link) but it gave me the guidance I needed. I just noticed that Kenny has tutorial pages for knitting two socks on one needle on his blog in the sidebar. I'm an idiot for not looking there first.



3 comments:

  1. Two at once with Magic Loop! Now that is an awesome technique. I have to learn that because I am sick of one sock at a time. You certainly got good mileage out of that Cascade 220. You are off to a great start for '08.

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  2. I love doing 2 at a time with ML, but I've only ever done toe-ups. Thanks for the link for the cuff-down tutorial - I've got just the pattern to test it on.

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  3. wow that's a lotta projects out of some 220!! and a lotta pink! lol

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