I’d been considering trying toe-up socks and so was thrilled when going through my digitally recorded hoard of Knitty Grittys on DIY I found the episode where Cookie A. (one of my favorite sock artists – Knitters Anonymous is her blog) was demonstrating how to knit socks from the toe up.
She, of course, made it look easy!
I downloaded the pattern – Click Here - and went over the Blue Sky to purchase the Socks that Rock Heavyweight yarn that she used. After a gasp over the sticker shock at the cost for a skein of this yarn, I placed my order.
When the yarn came in, it went into my stash box and waited for a month, while I finished some other projects. I pulled it out last night and wound it into two disks. I printed out the pattern, and then, I sat down to start knitting. I quickly realized that I needed to watch how she did the Figure 8 cast on again, so I replayed the episode (very helpful).
I ripped the first sock attempt out 3 times before I got a start that I could live with. The second one was much easier. (I always knit both socks at the same time – it is especially good when learning a new technique because you get to do it twice before you forget it again).
I have to say that, so far, the pattern is fairly easy to follow. It also moves quickly because you are using size 4 needles and yarn that appears to be close to light dk in weight. The yarn, however, is worth its weight in gold. This Socks that Rock yarn is absolutely heaven to work with – no splitting and it is amazingly soft. I’m very happy with it.
I’m not happy, however, that I found an error in my lace on one of the socks already. I’m not willing to try to drop down to that stitch to fix it, because I don’t think I could ever recreate everything above it correctly. I’m trying to learn to live with my knitting goofs, but darn! it is hard sometimes….
