I usually do not post each sock or stocking, when they are done, as they are... simple pieces, not much variety, except maybe for the color. As I wrote in one of my weekly opinion posts, I only knit plain socks, and let the yarn talk.
My first sock this year was made from some Regia sock yarn, I bought in Müller.
Yes, i know, I have enough sock yarn, to last my lifetime, but when I say this swirly piece, in BLUE, I could not leave it there.
I do have to say, that I did start knitting as soon as I brought the yarn home, and the socks got to the almost done state pretty fast, then the year really started to go and they sloved down.
The other one I started early the year was a Himalaya Bamboo, though I am not sure how many (if any) bamboo in it. (I lost the band from the skein, I only know the name, because I asked a reenactor teammate, and I remembered her knitting socks from the same yarn earlier this year).
The strange thing is that though the yarn seemed and felt slightly thicker, than other sock-yarns, when I started to knit it with my usual 2,25 knit Pro needles, the fabric felt loose, so I went down to 2,00 mm.
This next one was made from one ball of Lana Grossa, I bough AGES ago, back in the early 2010's (or maybe even earlier?), when Müller stores started to pop up in the country and they carried those ahhh so coveted self-patterning sock yarns.
I added unicolored toes, heels and a couple of rows to the cuffs, which was actually leftover from my
Edith hat.
This blue one was started from some noname, leftover bits of sockyarn, I started it a year or two ago, , it was in one of my small project bag, and as I was picking up and going through many of my UFO's, I decided to finish it.
I have been on kind of a petrol kick lately, I love that color, I have a few petrol colored pieces in my wardrobe, so when the ball fell on my had twice (while I was trying to pick up some other mess), I decided to take it as a sign, that it is high time to knit a pair from it. I added a more or less unicolored toe/heel/cuffedge, from some leftover yarns, and I have enough left to do a pair of mittens.
As there was no band on either sockyarn, I have cannot say what brand they are, though the self striping one looks suspiciously like another sock I am working on but in shades of purple.
And then, just not to have everything in petrol, I got a courdory dress in a color... fuchsia? What is the color of hot but dark pinkish-purplish? that one. I got the dress, I needed socks too. The yarn is... once again, no label. Unicolored sockyarn for toes/heels and cuff edges.
Last but not least, finished the day before yesterday another pair that was languishing in the project-bags, along with the blue one I showed ealier. i must have started it a year or two ago. Fraternal twins, as I had hardly enough for a sock with different toes and heels and the full cuffs were done in the contrast color, so I had no leeway to match the stripes, but I like them this way too.
Are you a sock knitter? Did you knit many socks in the last year? What are your plans for 2025 as far as sock knitting goes? Tell me in the comments!
