Socks and Blockers
How progresses the socks? Slowly but surely. I haven't had a lot of long car trips lately, so my socks are languishing a bit. But with a trip to Kauai coming up soon, I'm anticipating a lot of travel time to be filled with knitting. Not just on the flight there, but as we drive around the island. I'm getting mighty darn good at knitting without looking at what I am knitting when it comes to kntting socks in the round. A good part of the top of the second sock was knit in the dark on the way back from Michigan. I thought I was going to get two fairly evenly striped socks out of this skein, but as I work my way down the foot of the second sock, I see the stripes beginning to widen. Ah well, STR is nothing if not unpredictable. I have no doubt that I will enjoy them no matter how the striping works out.
The nifty thing here is the sock blockers. I ordered a set of these from Chappy's Fiber Arts and Crafts on Ebay. I found out about them from Wendy. Wendy always finds the best stuff and she started talking about these sock blockers just about the time that I started being interested in having a better way to show off my hand knit socks. These took a little while to get to me (I suspect that they are made after the order is placed), but I think they were worth the wait. This pair is meant to block a woman's medium sized sock, but I suspect that I will eventually be investing in the smaller and larger size as well.
My husband's hobby is making sawdust. I should get him to make me some sock blockers.
I got mine pretty quickly -- but I know they had a run on the blockers after a couple of us mentioned them on our blogs. Chappy told me that her husband was in the workshop day and night fulfilling orders. :-)
I've been photographing on the feet. But the blockers do show off the socks well.
Beautiful sock blockers; nice work on the socks as well.
Best,
firefly
I love 'em. Such a fabulous colorway! :-)
What size socks do you normally knit for? I usually knit for a woman's 7-7.5 and am unsure weither I should go up to the medium or stick with the small.
That Ebay seller's name always makes me do a double-take! (grin) Your socks look fabulous!
My mum ordered some and sent them to me for my birthday. They're pretty nifty.
I am on my second STR sock. They're just basic stockinette socks with a cable, because I've never done cables before and I figured a sock would be a good place to experiment. The first one pooled madly from the leg to the ankle, and after that was pretty varigated. The second sock I only have a few inches on but it seems to be pretty varigated. Oh well. They feel pretty comfy.
Those blockers are cute! At first I just looked at your lovely socks, but then noticed the sheepy tops.