Am I crazy?

[velvetpage]

I've never been able to figure out the pull of knitting socks. They go on your feet until one gets lost in the wash; why spend a fortune and a few weeks making them?

Then Knit Picks came out with their new colours in a washable soft yarn.

Curse you, Knit Picks! You've got me looking up sock patterns on Ravelry!

EDIT: Then again, I could make a pair of fingerless mittens instead.

Comments

[athelind.livejournal.com]

:grumble: There's no BugMeNot log-in for that page.

I'm big on fingerless (or half-fingered) gloves, myself. In the winter, I need to keep my knuckles warm, but I can't TYPE with full gloves.

Lacking convenient access to the fingerless gloves that at least one cast member in every British SF show seems to wear as part of their costume (Primeval, Being Human), I buy cheap Jersey gloves and snip the fingertips off'em.

[velvetpage.livejournal.com]

That pair would be lacier than you'd want, anyway - it's a lacy sock pattern converted to fingerless mitts.

However, I'm sure I could find a more straightforward, manly pattern to make for you, if you could wait a while - my queue is quite full at the moment.

[velvetpage.livejournal.com]

http://www.knitty.com/ISSUEsummer06/PATTfetching.html

Those could work, in a different colour, or I could do them in a simpler rib knit at the cuff.

Or there's this one. (http://www.knitty.com/ISSUEspring07/PATTdashing.html)

[catarzyna.livejournal.com]

I'm torn about knitting socks. I think I will try it once to see how I like it. Mostly I prefer making slippers.

[rallymama.livejournal.com]

I've made one pair of socks, and I LOVE them. They're more comfortable than I was expecting, and wonderfully easy AND portable. Even better, both my MIL and mother are very eager at the prospect of handknit socks, when every other suggestion I'd made got a lukewarm response. Socks are knitting cracks, IMO.

Fingerless gloves are not my thing, altho' I do plan to make one pair to go with my Clapotis. I love the pattern called "Stulpen" on Ravelry; that won't work for the yarn I have, but I'll do something similar.