Knitting…

…So I’m trying to figure out how to knit socks. This is one item that really doesn’t crochet well (Crochet socks are ugly! And probably uncomfortable to wear as well).

After reading some books at the store, poking around Ravelry and the web, I decided that I want to make the socks from toe up so that I can make them as long as I can with yarn on hand (…since I believe that socks are longer the better!).

The socks I’m trying to make has “short-row” toe and heel (…whatever that means…) so that’s what I’m figuring out. Seriously, it took quite a bit of determination learning this from written instruction supplemented with a few photos). But I did eventually figure it out. Here’s the practice toe made with big needle and thick yarn (I use this little ball of yarn for practicing and unraveling over and over again). The yellow yarn is temporary stitchings (it’s crochet actually) for a technique called “provisional cast on”, it gets unraveled, discarded, and the stitches that are left behind are put on a needle at later point.

I made some knitting stitch markers with antiqued brass wire and pink glass beads.