The Gray Socks Have Reappeared
Originally published at Every Tomorrow. Please leave any comments there.
You might remember the gray socks from last year. It’s a pair I started last summer, my very first socks…. and they’re still not done. But I have started working on them again. Maybe they’ll be done by next summer.
There have been some features to this sock that have made it particuarlly slow going. Like, the 9 1/4 inches of ribbing on the leg of the first sock (the second sock currently has 3 1/2 inches), and the fact that the sock is knitted on size 0 needles. Meaning, that’s a lot of area to cover and one row doesn’t get you very far.
I did switch out needles on the project, which seems to be helping. Before, the project was on bamboo needles…. and while normally, I love bamboo needles, in the case of size 0s, they are awful. They have way too much give, by the end of your first sock, they’re warped. I recently got the KnitPicks sock needle set (with size 0s, 1s, 1 1/2s, 2s, and 2 1/2s) and switched my sock to the size 0 metal needles. Much much better!