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Wanted to post more socks this month but between illness, lemm.ee breaking (hai this is @[email protected] alt account), my hard drive breaking, and general holiday nonsense I have failed to do so.

So here's a collage of a load of them instead!

The ones in the top left were my first ever ones, I'd got overconfident and committed to making his n' hers pairs so when I hated the first lot there were still two more socks to go. It put me off trying socks again for SO LONG 😂

Will update later with the pattern links for anyone interested but right now I need food!

Thesesocks are knit from the heel out, grafted together to make a tube, and then the toe and cuff are picked up and knit. No one believed me when they saw my project when I told them it was a sock. I felt the urge to sacrifice a chicken before grafting because I wasn't sure it was going to work.

I would say Go Hawks! But it is not that kind of a season this season... 🫣😭

Behold the socks that created my obsession! These were actually the third pair I knitted but the first ones that made me understand why knitted socks are so great.

The pattern is the classic Hermione's Everyday Socks, and the yarn is a special blend of all kinds of things including silk and bamboo, bought as a souvenir from a shop called Yarnia in Portland during a big US road trip we took in 2015. You can sort of see the different strands in it in this pic here.

!WIP sock cuff with trailing yarn

These are my lucky socks. I wore them to job interviews, I wore them the day I got accepted into uni, and I wore them for confidence whenever I was doing something scary.

Alas, after years of heavy use, one of them has a hole in the ball of the foot and I expect the other one won't be far behind.

!finger poking through a hole in a knitted sock

So given that for once I've managed not to overburden myself with Christmas crafting this year, I think my project for the holidays is going to be to learn how to fix these. At least they'll be usable for wearing around the house, and given they're 8 years old that's pretty good going really!

(Please excuse the wildly different colours from one image to the next, this was a long time ago and I did not know how to camera)