I recently finished this pair of socks for the Technical Advisor, they were on the needles for a long time. I started out enthusiastically enough but as the reality of knitting socks for size 12 feet began to hit home my enthusiasm waned somewhat. I cannot find the ball band but the yarn was nothing special.
I have made a few pairs of socks but am by no means a sock addict and in truth I never quite got the whole sock addiction thing. Why pay so much for yarn to knit socks with? I can buy pretty good socks for a lot less than that. However, when my prize arrived from Heather some time back I was pretty eager to give the yarn a try and I resurrected the Technical Advisor's socks in order to get them off my conscience before casting on anew.
Oh my, the yarn really does make all the difference.
It would seem that I cannot knit this fast enough, this stuff is gorgeous, so soft, one of those yarns you have to keep doing that slightly weird thing of stopping to stroke the yarn against your cheek every so often (well, weird to non-knitters and Technical Advisors that is).
This pair is destined for Dylan who has been neglected in a knitting way of late and these socks are moving a great deal faster than any I have knit before, sock number one was cast on Monday and cast off Tuesday, hoping to complete number two with equal speed. So oh yes, I now totally get the sock thing, I love all of it, the fiddly bit at the start where you get going, the race down the ankle towards the heel, the concentration and smug satisfaction as you turn the heel and the race towards the toe, I don't even mind the kitchener stitch! Of course I have already ordered more sock yarn, after all I have a whole new stash to build and obviously I will need a specialist sock pattern book. I was thinking maybe Nancy Bush or would Lucy Neatby be better? I would love to hear of any recommendations.
Thank you so much Heather for giving me a whole new dimension to my addiction, don't you just love knitting, it never gets boring.
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Sock knitting may be the single most important break through in therapy in the past decade--it's good to 'heel' most anything!
Before you know it you will have drawer-fulls of sock yarn!
PS> You socks look great!
I have both the Nancy Bush and the Lucy Neatby books. There are some lovely designs in the Nancy Bush one but not much info on resizing them etc which I need as I have smaller than average feet. The Lucy Neatby one is full of useful technical info on sock construction but has less adventurous designs. So I suppose it depends what you're looking for ...
I just bought the Ann Budd "Favourite Scoks" one and that I LOVE !
Perhaps you would enjoy Sensational Knitted Socks - lots of socky goodness there!
Just found your blog and love it!
Unfortunately know nothing about books onsocks - but there are some cute designs on Knitty.com
I swear by Nancy Bush "Knitting on the Road" and I.K "Favourite Socks".
That said, there's many fabulous sock patterns available for free on the internet. :)
Good work!
Came over to say Hi after you left a lovely comment on my blog and I realised I'd been before and enjoyed your blog. I'd forgotten to bookmark it before though so I will now!
Anyway, love the size 12 socks and like you I feel dainted knitting some for my husband although I can't complain really as he's only size 9. I've really gotten into sock knitting and after a lot of research have decided to go for the Nancy Bush books. Shame you don't live closer we could bought lots of books and shared them.