Discover Your Inner Knitter with Doris: Two sock stories

I recently had two challenges with my sock knitting.

The first is the story of the socks which were too long and I amputated and re-knitted the toe.

SOME SERIOUS SOCK SURGERY

or The Tale About the Socks which kept on going 🧦

Who here remembers the socks I knitted while on a road trip?

Bonus points if you remember that I was worried about the length of the foot.

It is so easy to just keep knitting round and round while the wheels go round and round and the countryside flies by. Perhaps socks are not the best project to take on a road trip or at least it is best to keep checking and stop early on, in this case since they were toe-up waaay before the heel.

You would think I know by now since this is not my first pair ( more like my 47th!) 😂

Anyway, I finished them, then had Julie try them on and yes, the foot was too long by about 14 rounds!

What to do?

It takes 22 rounds to knit the toe, then add 14 rounds to that and I amputated the toe 36 rounds in from the top.

Then I picked up the underside of the life stitches to knit in the other direction and finish the socks as cuff down socks.

Meanwhile I unraveled the cut off toe parts , then soaked and dried the yarn to get out all the kinks.

Once the yarn was ready to be re-used I knitted the toes. I doubled the yarn with re-enforcing yarn to give the toe some extra durability.

And voila, here they are hopefully the right length. Easy peasy, right?!

It just shows, there is always a way to fix problems or mistakes and make things work; at least in knitting. And perhaps also in life.

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And my other story is a about a pair of socks in super soft yarn which I started by knitting reinforced toes with two strands of yarn each from only three balls of yarn 🤯

Cats Cradle or knitting socks?

With all six gifts finished and waiting to be blocked, I started on a pair of socks in the scrumptious yarn my friend gifted me.

Artyarns Cashmere Sock yarn in pink and gray; 67% Cashmere Goat, 25% Wool and 8% Nylon.

I wanted to make sure the toe box is nice and sturdy and used leftover yarn from a previous project, Emma‘s Yarn; 80% Merino Wool, 10% Cashmere Goat and 10% Nylon.

I also used an additional strand of reinforcing yarn ( Beilauffaden) by Regia.

Since I only had one ball of Emma left, I pulled yarn from the inside for one sock and from the outside for the other sock for TWO-AT-A-TIME.

I also only had one card of Regia and halved that measuring the total length, then dividing it.

So,…are you still with me at his point? I had a total of four strands, two for each sock with the added challenge of pulling two of the strands from the same ball of yarn 🤯 mind blowing 😆

It really did feel like playing cats cradle, but I managed in the end.

The question remains: why do I do this to myself?

Have you knitted something in a more convoluted way than absolutely necessary?