Weekly SO

 Strong Opinion that is. 

For this week is still knitting. I have been knitting long enough (just about 50 years now) to have quite  a few of those. 

Anyhow, for this week it is...

No patterned socks. I mean I do not knit socks with pattern. Yes, loving stranded knitting as much as I do, there ARE quite a few that I like, and might even knit one day for an extra special knitted pice. I might go as far as stripes, bit no structural or lace or cabled etc. patterns. 

However, for everyday socks, I knit plain socks. I used to knit them like ribbed leg, and ribbed upper and stockinett sole, but lately I rather knit stockinett feet, and  some of the leg, and then a fairly long ribbing. (I think I already said, that for everyday, modern socks - not historical stockings) I prefer the toe-up method. 

Since I use my handknitted socks from october to april, and in those times I mostly wear boots, only a small part of them shows, so I don't see the use of patterning. Also, again, as much as I love handknitted socks, they are not as smooth as let's say, machine knitted ones. Adding any pattern to that...

Yes, I do love sockyarns, and I do love colored one, and I do enjoy seeing how they knit up. That is why I often buy even bits and pieces, because I love the color-combination I see, and wonder, how they would look knitted up. 

So, I let the sockyarns do the work, I let them speak so to speak (pun intended).  As I use a lot of leftovers and bits, I often combine them, my go to variation is to use a plain colored one (preferably of one of the colorful yarn's color) and use that for the toes, heels and cuffs. Depending how much I have, I might use the uni-colored one for the whole cuff, sometimes I stripe them up, sometimes just the last one/couple/few rows on the edge is unicolored.

Those sockyarns I love so much -in my opinion- look their best in plain stockinett. Of course, if you are here for  awhile, or read back, you know, that I use them for a lot more than socks, but this was my opinion about handknitted socks.