Needlework Monday: Socks - again [Eng/Ger]

You can never have enough socks!

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(Deutsche Zusammenfassung s.u.)

Those who live in warmer climates might not understand it but living in countries like Germany make socks really important. Even in summer (if it is not that hot as during the last weeks) there are cooler evenings where it get's a bit nippy. Fortunately a knitter (or crocheter) has exactly what helps - a shawl over your shoulders or a nice pair of socks. And let's not talk about winter time where you have socks that are especially warm and cosy :)

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I usually have some socks on the needles - 90% of kntting a sock is mindless knitting in the round. And it's a small, portable project perfect for taking with you and knitting while waiting for a bus, at the doctor's et cetera.

This particular pair of socks was started about a month ago. I choose a yarn for it that was new to me: it's a mix of wool, cotton and an elastic polyamid. The cotton was the reason - knitting wool is not nice in warm weather! Knitting with this 'cotton stretch' is quite nice and you get used to the elasticity of the yarn quite fast. I just hope the wool in the yarn makes the socks more longlasting than socks made out of cotton-poly - that's hand wash in cold water only and even with that after a year the socks weren't stretchy anymore.

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I knit the socks in my preferred way: toe-up, 2aat, 2 circs. If that's Greek to you here's the explanation:

• toe-up : I start at the toe of the sock, not the cuff
• 2aat : knitting two socks at a time and
• 2 circs : doing that on two circular needles.

I started with Judy's Magical Cast-On (there are tons of videos on the net showing how that's done) and made asymmetric increase:. If you look at the toe area of a foot there is a side with a steep slant and a slower slant. That's how I knit my socks - there's a right one and a left one.

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One color socks are booooooring so these socks get yellow toes, heels and cuffs.So after starting with yellow I changed to the blue-green yarn. The heel I knit again in yellow - a boomerang heel with Geman short rows. Now I'm knitting green-blue again till it's time for the cuff - I don't know exactly how long I will make this part. These aren't socks you wear when it's really cold so they can be shorter than my normal socks.

Diese Socken habe ich aktuell auf den Nadeln. Von der Spitze begonnen mit beiden gleichzeitig auf zwei Rundstricknadeln und mit einer Bumerangferse. Garn ist ein Baumwoll-Woll-Poly Gemisch das ich erstmals benutze. Es ist in sommerlicher Wärme angenehm zu stricken :)

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Of course I'm still working on my scarf which is 35 cm long right now.