Sock Making Again - 12 June 2025

This second sock has taken much longer than anticipated. The knitting started back in March and has been interrupted along the way by a number of more pressing activities, but I’m glad to report that it’s finally done.

The photo above just shows you part of the process where I’ve completed the heel and I’m beginning to knit the foot of the sock. The knitting as such doesn’t take that long. Making time to just just pick up the needles has been a bit of a slow process.

When I get to this final stage which is closing up the toes by sewing with the dreaded Kitchener stitch I normally start thinking about what I’d like to make next.

When I finished doing that sewing I turned the sock inside out to weave in and hide the yarn tail. I wasn't so keen on the toe shape. Normally I’d finish with around 18 stitches altogether ( 9 stitches for the front needle and 9 for the back needle), but this time I thought it might be good to finish with 32 stitches altogether. That means that I grafted 16 stitches on the front and 16 on the back. My thinking was that perhaps that would make the toe end a bit rounder and more comfortable. Sadly this made the toe section look a bit too ‘square’. I’ll try on these socks and see how I feel. I would not be able to unpick that section because I wouldn’t know how - that Kitchener stitch is unforgiving. After such a long time I still feel I’m learning and refining my socks.

Let me now show you what the finished pair of socks looks like :

_{I haven’t managed to 3-D print the sock blockers yet so that’s the cardboard blockers.}

You can see how the two socks are similar but not identical. When I started the second sock I tried to find a black section to begin the cuff with. I was happy I got that and thought that from then on the colours would coincide but as you can see they didn’t. The second sock had that extra black ring in the sock ‘leg’ section. I don’t mind the lack of symmetry so much because once again I will wear these socks. I currently think that I need about 9 pairs of socks in rotation so I’ll make a couple more pairs in preparation for the autumn.

Thank you so much to @marito74 and to @blessedlife for inviting me to read their inspiring posts about what they’ve made and highlighting events happening around the world. It's nice to be included and to feel part of a community.

Thank you for reading !