Knitting

I love to knit.  It’s my favourite way to pass time.  I have a hard time just sitting around doing ‘nothing’.  I like to keep my hands busy.  Right now I am obsessed with knitting socks.  They are so quick to finish and there are so many beautiful sock wools out there.

I’ve discovered a few great books that make sock knitting even more fun.   The first one is Knitting Circles Around Socks.   It is so much faster to knit both your socks at the same time.  It’s much better than having to start all over after finishing the first sock.  Also, if you have small feet like me, it makes making adjustments to both socks easy – no measuring or counting.

Well, now I’ve found what I think might be an even better way to make socks.  Two at a time from the toe up!!!   I got a new book Toe-Up 2-at-a-Time Socks.  The author makes her socks with one long needle but I found that awkward.  So I switched her method to my 2 circular needle method like in the above book.  Toe up socks aren’t as difficult as you’d think they’d be.  I need to work on the casting on, but that’s just because it’s a new method.  Knitting this way will be a great way to use up leftover wool.  I can just keep knitting till I run out of wool, then the socks will either be ankle length or longer depending on when the wool runs out.  I have a really neat project in mind and toe-up will make it much easier.

Every Thursday I head over to a nearby town for Knit Night at the library.  The group calls itself the ‘knit wits’  🙂  It’s mostly a group of youngish Moms like me.  Though some of the girls don’t have kids yet and we have a few older ladies that come by from time to time.  We have a great time knitting and chatting about knitting and life.