AUTUMN SOCK KNIT ALONG. 2023 New

[Celia]

For anyone thinking about the strips here is a very good you tube https://youtu.be/IXsItKHmmNk to get you started, I have done 1 and 1/2 so will finish soon if I can get back to them, doing a Christmas snowman at the moment

I love different techniques

[realale]

For anyone thinking about the strips here is a very good you tube https://youtu.be/IXsItKHmmNk

That's the one I watched 

[Flobear]

Latest in Hearthside slipper saga.

Started the upper, it takes a bit of following and I'm having to read it off the laptop screen as it wouldn't print out properly. Looks a bit crooked to me and I don't seem to have the right number of stitches down one side of the foot    Decided to try it on and I think I really need the next size up <sigh>
In consequence, I have 'parked' the right foot and made a start on the left, one size larger.

Next winter, anyone? 

[toileandtrouble]

@Turquoise  I like your socks - is that a patterned leg, or is it the wool making a plain rib look different?

[Turquoise]

@toileandtrouble - the wool changes colour throughout and there is a pattern on the front side of the sock.  It’s great because it’s very easy (every 4th row the front side is knitted as a 1:1 rib ) and gives a lovely textured effect. 

The pattern is Mina Philips’s Pebble socks.  The pattern uses The German short heel method and I found that a better method for me than the one I used on my practise version using Aran wool, where I picked up stitches.

[Pearl]

Next pair finished 

[Celia]

They look lovely @Pearl. I really want to try that pattern @Flobear so am watching your progress with interest. 

My socks are on hold at the moment as I am knitting some gloves for my son and also some snowmen but here is the progress so far on the helical striped socks, k am knitting them toe up as I am not sure how much wool I have and they are knitted in in Drops Nord.  The colour in the photo is not quite right

[Flobear]

I really want to do it too, @Celia 

As I said upthread, next winter for the completion? 

[Celia]

Ok When we changed the  title I didn’t say which winter  @Flobear

[toileandtrouble]

Second sock finished, delivered them to my friend - forgot to take a picture.     And I had matched up the stripes too.  Might have another go at mine now.  Or the plain ones.

[realale]

I'm still plodding on with these socks. As I said I'm not a speedy knitter but these seem to be going on for ever. I'll be glad to finish one sock before the daunting task of starting the second.

He can have one sock for Christmas and the second one for his birthday in February. (Still don't like the yarn I'm using.)

[Ouryve]

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About to cast on. My phone cannot capture how Christmassy a green this yarn is. No way will even the first sock be complete for Christmas, though!

[Celia]

Looks Christmassy to me

[Bumblebuncher]

Looks Christmassy to me too.
Why does anything green or red look Christmassy this time of year?
BB

[Flobear]

Just to prove that I really am attempting to knit Hearthside slippers, here's one that, so far, seems to be working out. But I definitely can't do German short rows in the middle of a long round and watch the telly at the same time    Trouble is, I have to look at the abbreviations Every Time I Knit a Row  because there are several similar manoeuvres and I daren't get one wrong.

Colours are not that exciting. I chose them from sale stock online. The sole was going to be a shade of British racing green but it was much too turquoisey and looked ghastly with the denim blue.
Pic is a bit fuzzy up close but I think it shows well enough.