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2025 Advent Sock Progress

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I’ve been beavering away on my 2025 Cozy Knitter Advent Socks. This photo is round about day 13.

I am loving the flecks again this year. I kinda wish I had done them mid stripe like the Cozy Knitter did on her instead of at the color transition. Perhaps something I can do in the next pair. I will have a second set of 24 stripes after these socks are finished.

I am a little worried about the heels. I am pretty sure the accent flecks are going to burn a ton of yarn and I won’t have enough to do the heels. I have some grey sock yarn in stash that would work but I can’t lay hands on the white Cascade sock yarn that should be somewhere….

Happy Knitting!!

2024 Advent Heels

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I did a fairly decent job of keeping up with my advent socks. I managed to get to Day 21 and fully installed heels by Christmas.

I have day 22-24 stripes left to work and I think I will cap this sock off with working ribbing in the striping yarn. I do have some of the white left but I think I have plan for that…..

I’m excited to get these off the needles and I am confident I will start the second repeat of this yarn on another pair of socks. This yarn is too good to waste and knitting those little bits every day is such a hit of dopamine.

Happy Knitting!!

One Rainbow Repeat

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The Prism Socks are inching along thanks to all the hat mojo of late. But I have completed the first rainbow repeat!

This progress is actually thanks to a half day work training and then two weeks of gymnastics lessons. I don’t seem to pick this project up when I am around the house. It’s just so nicely portable and lives in my work backpack.

I think the plan will be to work a second full rainbow repeat and see where I am lengthwise and then I can plan the heel and cuffs.

Happy Knitting!!

Cast On: Prism Socks

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Spring germs are REAL in this house and it’s knocked us all down for a minute. I had meant to get my next self striping socks on the needles after finishing my leftover advent socks, but that stalled.

I took my project to where I knew I would be a captive audience….literally. The hubs and I had tickets to see Brett Goldstein (of Ted Lasso fame) do standup. So I brought my yarn and needles and got to knitting during the pre-show and the ride home. Brett was amazingly funny, btw!

This yarn is the Inertia base from String Theory Colorworks and in the Prism color. So it will be a very vibrant rainbow with mini stripes of charcoal in-between. I am constructing my standard 68 stitch toe up tube with afterthought heel on US 1s. And I plan to work them in tandem so as to avoid second sock syndrome.

I wish I could find my metal US1s but the wooden ones will do for now. I can always switch later. I think these will be my backpack project or car console project since they fit nicely into a zipper pouch.

Two Wee Advent Toes

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I did get two wee toes started with my leftover 2023 CozyKnitter advent skein. This time around I started without a contrast toe so the resulting socks will be shorter.

I may not work a stripe a day, but I do plan to work them in tandem. So if I knit on one, I will stop and do the same on the other. I really wanted to work some sort of slip stitch detail into these but I am not convinced it will show up in the subtle fade. I will try it for a few colors but if it sucks….I’ll rip them back.

Happy Knitting!!

A Warm Sock

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My first Emotional Support Sock is complete thanks to a long weekend in Missouri wine country. I only made a few mistakes that I had to rip back after a glass or two of wine. These were perfect to work on beside the outdoor fire with a sparkling glass of wine!

Before the trip I did end up weighing my yarn and the sock together to find “half” so I could break the yarn and have roughly an equal amount for sock #2. This sock is my own recipe for a toe up vanilla sock with a gusset heel. I use 68 stitches and the Wendy Johnson heel pattern.

It’s a great fit in the foot and heel and a teensy bit tight in the leg. I have had some swelling from getting back into competitive volleyball and also all the walking on my trip. I’m hoping a return to a healthy diet and some extra water will help flush everything out!

P.S. This was my first fire of the season and I am SO EXCITED!!

Happy Knitting!!

Super Pup and Sock Legs

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Jellybean and I had some time to kill this week whilst PB was sporting. So he had MarioKart on the Switch and I stopped to admire Emotional Support Socks.

I took PB to see the Paw Patrol Mighty Pups in theatre. I had just re-joined in the round when the movie started. So one cartoon movie is roughly 1.75 inches worth of sock knitting. The movie was not my cup of tea but PB was in rapture. She is now running around the house pretending to be Skye.

I think I will add another 1.25 inches of stockinette leg before I start the ribbing. These socks are calling for some decent ribbing so maybe another 2-3 inches? I love making free form socks and when I’m not stuck to a pattern.

Happy Knitting!!

Socks On A Driveway

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The crisp air has finally arrived! The kiddos were running up and down our sidewalk on scooters. So I grabbed a lawn chair and my Emotional Support Socks.

I have finished the foot and I’ve divided for the heel. I am going to put in Wendy Johnson’s gusset heel. I have been using it for years and found that it wears well and fits my foot shape.

My cake of yarn is still in great shape so I definitely have enough yarn for good sized socks. The yarn has been caked for a bit so it is noodly in a few places but that should block right out!

Happy Knitting!!

A UniZebraCorn Tube

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Finally got a vanity shot of my first UniZebraCorn sock tube before I lost the sunlight!

The pooling really played out nicely. The rainbow is subtle and the zebra black/white breaks up the crazy very well. I haven’t weighed this tube yet but I have a generous ball of yarn left. I am still pondering on the yarn choice for the heel. Could do black or I could just use this same self-striping yarn.

I think I will finish the second tube and decide how I feel in that moment. Happy Knitting!!