Posted: August 29th, 2009 | Author: admin | Filed under: projects: abandoned socks (rainbow), shibui knits, socks, things i knit, yarn i use | Tags: afterthought heel, craft, diy, finished objects, handmade, knitting, shibuiknits sock, sock knitting, stockinette socks | 1 Comment »
Finished!
It’s almost cheating to call this an accomplishment, because it’s really not. On the list of “unfinished projects to complete,” this was probably the easiest. I started these socks in October, finished them in about a month, and then they sat. For almost a year. In my defense, at least two weeks of letting them sit untouched was completely justified – I noticed that I’d dropped a stitch picking up one of the heels, and figuring out how to darn that in looked like it’d be a headache.
The other ten months, unfortunately, I have no excuses for.
But, one episode of Gossip Girl later (because Gossip Girl makes almost every unpleasant task less painful), they were totally done. They’re also the most screamingly rainbow-coloured socks in the entire world, but I think after all this time, I’ve come to terms with that.
Pattern: Generic toe-up stockinette socks, with afterthought heels.
Needles: 2.25mm dpns
Yarn: ShibuiKnits Sock, in #51301 Spectrum
Posted: August 28th, 2009 | Author: admin | Filed under: bmfa socks that rock, koigu kpppm, projects: abandoned socks (anastasia), projects: abandoned socks (msf), projects: abandoned socks (rainbow), projects: abandoned socks (trekking), shibui knits, socks, things i knit, trekking xxl, yarn i use | Tags: craft, crafty, knit, knits in progress, knitting, second sock syndrome, sock knitting, socks | 1 Comment »
So, I go back to school in about a week, and to prepare I’ve been trying to clean my apartment and get rid of clutter, so that I start off on the right foot. (I am really, really bad at cleaning when I have schoolwork to do.)
One of the things I ended up doing was going through my shelves and tidying things up, which is when I discovered this:
Three pairs of socks, in various stages of seriously-almost-finished-ness, hiding in the bookcase. One of these pairs is finished except for the grafting, the other two consist of a full finished sock and a second sock knit to the heel. This is just embarrassing.
It also means that, for the next little while, I’m going to be putting my sweater projects on hold, and working on these pairs (plus the pair I started this month with my MSF yarn). My goal is to have them all finished and in my sock drawer sometime in the very, very near future. It’ll be great – I’ll have warm toes, a cleaner apartment, and I can start all the new projects I’ve been dreaming about (more on those later) with a clear conscience.
