{"id":4,"date":"2007-05-06T18:11:29","date_gmt":"2007-05-07T01:11:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/stringpage.com\/blog\/?p=4"},"modified":"2007-11-29T13:23:32","modified_gmt":"2007-11-29T18:23:32","slug":"socks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.stringpage.com\/blog\/?p=4","title":{"rendered":"Socks"},"content":{"rendered":"

So, you might ask… what have I been up to lately, in the way of string? Some fancy medieval thing, a new technique, an insane piece of tablet weaving?<\/p>\n

Nope, I’ve been knitting socks. A year ago, I was hunting for a pair of purple socks to go with a shirt I like, and no success. Lavender, blue, all sorts of socks, but no purple<\/em>. Phooey! Well, I said to myself, lots of people knit socks – how hard could they be?<\/p>\n

I was at least smart enough to start with cheap yarn, some sort of wool-acrylic blend. I used this generic sock pattern<\/a>, which is great for people who like to know how things work. All I have to say, is that heels are magic! This first pair of socks was actually foot-shaped, and even better, shaped like my <\/em>feet. Along the way I learned that I don’t knit like everyone else, and spent some time learning how decreases really work so that I could make socks that look like everyone else’s even though I made them funny. But more on that later…<\/p>\n

\"First<\/p>\n

Next, purple socks! These didn’t photograph very well, but they are exceedingly <\/em>purple.
\n\"Purple<\/p>\n

They’re also slightly more complicated, with a knit-purl stitch pattern.<\/p>\n

\"Purple<\/p>\n

I was very fortunate to find someone who would dogsit in exchange for interesting handknit socks. I let two pairs of socks escape unphotographed, but Tamie promises to get me pictures, or the socks.<\/p>\n

I’ve now taken my first stab at “sock yarn” instead of the worsted-weight wool I’ve been using. Just as I got the urge, Webs<\/a> had all sorts of Regia sock yarn on sale. Hee-hee!<\/p>\n

So, socks the first… Like the purple socks, these are really much brighter than they appear, very spring-like.<\/p>\n

\"Self-striping<\/p>\n

I was forced to cast on a second pair by the arrival of a set of rosewood DPNs. I like them – they are slower to knit with, but very light, and when I ball the whole thing up and stuff it in a bag, the wood needles are much less likely to pull out. It took me a few minutes to get used to the floppiness compared to metal or the thicker bamboo needles I’ve used.<\/p>\n

\"New<\/p>\n

Nick<\/a> looked at them, and at what I paid for them (hey! They were on sale, thank you very much), and now thinks he might take up making knitting needles as a sideline, both wooden ones and eensy weensy metal ones.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

So, you might ask… what have I been up to lately, in the way of string? Some fancy medieval thing, a new technique, an insane piece of tablet weaving? Nope, I’ve been knitting socks. A year ago, I was hunting for a pair of purple socks to go with a shirt I like, and no […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-knitting"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.stringpage.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.stringpage.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.stringpage.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stringpage.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stringpage.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.stringpage.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.stringpage.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stringpage.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stringpage.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}