Knitting my first sock...
The library didn't have a single book on knitting the first sock, and the beginner books had a starter slipper and sweater - no sock patterns. So I got three sock books - thinking that the Twisted Sisters Sock Workbook's basic sock pattern would be as the title said basic. Nope.
The book is short, and the lack of stitch glossary should have clued me in that this was not a pattern for one's first sock. But the chatty tone of the book had me built up to the point that I think that this might be a basic enough pattern. Augh. This book was not proof read by a novice knitter. First she tells you to do the stockinette stitch for the leg - she does say just knit but does so that - but she could have put a aside for us novices that knitting all stitches in the round will produce the stockinette stitch, and that k, p, k rows will produce the garter stitch. But now I'm at the turning of the heel - and well, it might be clearer if it was in German, or French (had 2 years of that in HS). AUGH!
It's also that the instructions are contrary to all the other sock instructions I've found online after getting the book.... I think I'm just going to try it, and see what happens.
In other news I finally have all the ends worked in on my blue afghan - and the holes repaired from the metal bedframe mom has - from the years she used it after I gave it to her without working in the ends....
The problem - out of laundry soap - and I want to give it a wash and make sure that the darning (which is not skillful at all) doesn't come out.
The book is short, and the lack of stitch glossary should have clued me in that this was not a pattern for one's first sock. But the chatty tone of the book had me built up to the point that I think that this might be a basic enough pattern. Augh. This book was not proof read by a novice knitter. First she tells you to do the stockinette stitch for the leg - she does say just knit but does so that - but she could have put a aside for us novices that knitting all stitches in the round will produce the stockinette stitch, and that k, p, k rows will produce the garter stitch. But now I'm at the turning of the heel - and well, it might be clearer if it was in German, or French (had 2 years of that in HS). AUGH!
It's also that the instructions are contrary to all the other sock instructions I've found online after getting the book.... I think I'm just going to try it, and see what happens.
In other news I finally have all the ends worked in on my blue afghan - and the holes repaired from the metal bedframe mom has - from the years she used it after I gave it to her without working in the ends....
The problem - out of laundry soap - and I want to give it a wash and make sure that the darning (which is not skillful at all) doesn't come out.