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frewen

Joined: 08 Sep 2005
Posts: 11420

Posted: Wed Mar 21, 18 6:46 pm Post subject: Socks
So I’ve been knitting some...

sean
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Joined: 28 Oct 2004
Posts: 42219
Location: North Devon

Posted: Wed Mar 21, 18 8:01 pm Post subject:
Snazzy. Is that your extended family or do you just mug people and force knitwear on to their feet?

frewen

Joined: 08 Sep 2005
Posts: 11420

Posted: Wed Mar 21, 18 8:08 pm Post subject:
There may have been some mugging involved, despite them all being sort of related to me . One family member in particular couldn't bear to put the woolly socks on her feet! (last time I knit socks for them)

wellington womble

Joined: 08 Nov 2004
Posts: 15051
Location: East Midlands

Posted: Wed Mar 21, 18 8:08 pm Post subject:
She mugs people. Have you seen her armed with double pointed knitting needles? Scary!

gz

Joined: 23 Jan 2009
Posts: 8992
Location: Ayrshire, Scotland

Posted: Wed Mar 21, 18 8:16 pm Post subject:
Woooo, stripes!! I must get knitting again....

frewen

Joined: 08 Sep 2005
Posts: 11420

Posted: Wed Mar 21, 18 8:19 pm Post subject:
Tip of my index finger is quite arthritically sore now... worth it though

Mistress Rose

Joined: 21 Jul 2011
Posts: 16147

Posted: Thu Mar 22, 18 7:11 am Post subject:
I wear home knitted socks with my boots, and as the feet wear out quite quickly, even with sock wool, I reknit the feet. Son wants me to make him a pair as I darned a pair or woollen ones he had. So next time I go near a wool shop I need to get some more sock wool. Nice lot of socks you have made there.

Fee

Joined: 21 Mar 2005
Posts: 15922
Location: Earth

Posted: Thu Mar 22, 18 8:11 am Post subject:
Gorgeous! I wish I had the speed/patience.

gz

Joined: 23 Jan 2009
Posts: 8992
Location: Ayrshire, Scotland

Posted: Thu Mar 22, 18 8:43 am Post subject:

Mistress Rose wrote:

I wear home knitted socks with my boots, and as the feet wear out quite quickly, even with sock wool, I reknit the feet. Son wants me to make him a pair as I darned a pair or woollen ones he had. So next time I go near a wool shop I need to get some more sock wool.

Nice lot of socks you have made there.

Ah, you're following a famous example..Sir Clough Williams Ellis (the architect behind Portmeirion's Home for Retired Buildings) used to wear knee length hand knitted yellow socks with the foot knitted separately and sewn on...then his wife only knitted new feet regularly

frewen

Joined: 08 Sep 2005
Posts: 11420

Posted: Thu Mar 22, 18 9:19 am Post subject:
Sensible thing to do I feel. Sometimes I wonder about splicing on an extra round of stitches during the knitting and doing a double foot?

wellington womble

Joined: 08 Nov 2004
Posts: 15051
Location: East Midlands

Posted: Thu Mar 22, 18 10:05 am Post subject:
Some people hold sewing thread along with the yarn on the heels and toes to improve wear. I can’t wear them, so I don’t know if it helps much.

frewen

Joined: 08 Sep 2005
Posts: 11420

Posted: Thu Mar 22, 18 10:06 am Post subject:
May be I'll try that on the next pair.

sgt.colon

Joined: 27 Jul 2009
Posts: 7380
Location: Just south of north.

Posted: Thu Mar 22, 18 10:21 am Post subject:
Nice socks. I knitted some once for Mrs C. I found them very hard to do.

frewen

Joined: 08 Sep 2005
Posts: 11420

Posted: Thu Mar 22, 18 12:04 pm Post subject:
It's getting the pattern repeats to match up that's the proper nuisance!

gregotyn

Joined: 24 Jun 2010
Posts: 2201
Location: Llanfyllin area

Posted: Thu Mar 22, 18 4:00 pm Post subject:
I would like to volunteer to take the place of the sock "rejecter" in your family, frewen, are there any preconditions? I did have a pair when I was a child with 3 different colours, "re-footed" twice, just not as high up the second time!

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