Pattern: my own generic toe-up 2-at-a-time on 2 circular needles
Yarn: 1 skein Cascade Heritage Hand Painted
Needles: US 1.5 circular (2.5 mm)
Started: September 29, 2009
Finished: October 12, 2009
After completing Miss Mac's socks, I could see a slight twinge of jealously in my son's face. I ask ever so softly, would you like me to make you a pair? He replied with a very soft, okay.
He then went on to request red and white flame socks. Whoa-boy!
Yeah-no. You can pick from the stash, thank you very much. I think he chose wisely. The Heritage yarn was REALLY nice to work with and hell, you get 437 yards... plenty to cover this boy's boats. We lovingly tease him about his large feet and it has become a habit to requst him to remove the his boats from the ship yard... otherwise known as removing his shoes from the living room.
I didn't knit every yard of this yarn and should have made them a tad longer in the cuff, but you know when your just "done"... yeah, I was done.
I did try my had at the newest bind-off to enter our knitting world: Jeny's Surprisingly Stretchy Bind-Off. I love it. Love it. Love it. and plan on using it more often and for every sock I do toe up...oh, and in case your interested in seeing the matching cast-on by Jeny as well. All very cool indeed.
2 comments:
They turned out great! My Greg has big feet too! We used to say that we knew we were buying the right size socks by holding them up against the side of the shopping cart to check the length. ...smirk...
don't you think it's adorable though, that your teenage son actually wants mom to knit him socks??
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