Just finished ANOTHER project! Go me! This will hopefully be a productive summer as far as knitting goes!
These are my BFF Socks, a Cookie A pattern that you can find in her book Knit. Sock. Love.
The yarn is Happy Feet. I bought it in Seattle, WA, two years ago when my family went on a cruise to Alaska. There was yarn in EVERY port, I kid you not!
The yarn was great to work with…good thing because I had to frog the first sock after I’d turned the heel and realized it was too big (went down to a size 0 needle and the XS sock size, which made the socks fit perfectly afterward), and I also had to frog the second sock after finishing the leg portion because somewhere along the line, I’d started doing the cable round on the wrong round number! Ugh. Sometimes it’s the simplest patterns that can throw us the most!
You say you bought the yarn in Seattle. That might cause a problem. In this part of the country socks expect to be worn with sandals. When nobody’s watching, you might find that they move into the closet with your sandals. Consider yourself warned.
:roflhard:
Socks and Sandals
It just happens to be an insurance commercial. I won’t have insurance with them but I do like their commercials.
I came back to this thread to admire the socks some more and saw this. It works for me. I don’t know why it wouldn’t for you. In case you’d like to try again, I’ll just copy/paste it. That might fix for you. I’ve tried links that didn’t work but they seemed to for everyone else.
If that doesn’t work, and you’re still interested, put sandals & socks guy in the youtube search bar, it’s by NorthWest Types. It’s just a silly commercial but kind of funny, in a NW kind of way.
I’m glad it worked. If you like that you might like the goat herder guy one. People here do wear socks with sandals. I’m not sure they do anywhere else.
Beautiful socks, Auburnchick! You almost . . . [I]almost[/I] inspire me to make another pair of socks! Nyah, I stomped on the sock bug a while back cuz he just don’t do much for me.
Socks and sandals sound like a recipe for cold feet to me–especially if I wore them in rainy weather and got my socks saturated. Well, they [I]might[/I] be okay if I was wearing wool, but wool next to my skin itches like crazy.
Oh WOW. Those are so beautiful, and colorful, and interesting! I also appreciate your excellent modeling and photography! I don’t know why I’ve never tried to knit a single solitary sock or mitten or gauntlet! Do I have fear of small items? I dunno. But I’m totally sockless, and feeling out-in-the cold! :teehee:
You do such great work! And thanks for posting the photos!
I’m very proficient at knitting socks. Sweaters…not so much. Think I’m going to private message you for some help with a sweater I want to make before my summer ends…
Really? I thought it was just a Seattle and surrounding areas thing. :roflhard: Toe socks are for wearing with flip flops ya know.
Auburnchick’s socks are so beautiful I’d have to wear them just at home with no shoes or sandals so I could admire them and take them off before they could get dirty. I like making socks but I’m simply not in the same league.
