Knitting Socks!

I have to say thank you to two people....Michelle Marr of Michelles Romantic Tangle blog and Judy Laquidara of Patchwork Times. Their enthusiasm and "can do" attitude for sock knitting helped me to finally start knitting socks. I mean real socks!

It's not as if I've not made socks before. One pair of worsted weight tube socks, then years later, one pair of regular socks but again with worsted weight yarn. But I struggled. Turning the heel, gussets, picking up stitches, none of it came easily.

At one point Michelle did blog posts with instructions on how she did socks. Thanks Michelle! And Judy was confident that we could learn anything we really wanted to from the Internet. I now have made two pairs of socks. Fingering weight yarn! The first two aren't perfect but certainly wearable. This brown yarn is my third pair and I'm already more relaxed than I was on the others, I've told myself that once I do a "perfect" pair of these simple stockinette socks I will allow myself to move on to a more complicated pattern. Hey! I'm looking forward to doing cables! You would not believe how many different ideas I have save on Pinterest! Wait! We are all quilters and knitters! I know we all overindulge on Pinterest dreams.

I love bloggers! P.S. I made no effort to have the stripes matched on the socks. I love them just the way they are!

Cheers!
Toni

2017 FAL Q2

I don't use Blogger very often so....I make mistakes! I totally deleted my post, weeks after posting it, for the First Quarter. I couldn't get credit for the ones I finished as I don't remember which ones I had entered! Dang!  I did finish three (for sure!) for the first quarter, not shown here, but some of the following, while not finished, were on my first quarter list. I've made progress on many of them and now again I'm going to try for finishes this quarter.

From first Qtr, now quilted, need to trim and bind

From first quarter, now just need to trim and bind

This one too I'm pretty sure I had on first Qtr. Progress made? Backing pieced. Will try again for a finish this quarter.

I think this too was shown before. Progress made? Finished piecing top. Back pieced.

Another, almost finish!Quilted! Only need to bind.

Mostly quilted. Need to finish quilting and bind.

Progress on this one? Again, only pieced the back. Need to layer, quilt, bind, etc

  

This one is brand new. I have most of the fabric for the backing. Will need to piece back, layer, quilt and bind.

Oh my goodness! Besides these that I'm entering for my second quarter finishes. I have three more that I'm piecing. You need to keep things interesting. Again, like the first quarter, there is only one quilt that I'm doing for me, the "Confetti" quilt has a Halloween fabric backing. I'm keeping that one. Otherwise, all others are being donated through our charity group, Quilts from the Heart.
http://www.quiltsfromtheheart.org/

Cheers! And I have promised myself I will not accidently delete this post!
Toni