Hello knitters! Here's for another version of WIP Wednesday, feel free to reply to this thread with your own Work In Progress.
What project has kept you up past your bedtime this week? As for myself I decided to start a 'quick' project, a headband for a friend who loves red. Pattern is the Thicket Headband by Mirella Moments. I'm loving headbands for quick & easy projects and this is a fun twist to the usual cable design.
Yarn is something my mom had in her stash, it's was the only red-ish yarn I could find but since it was a little too thin for the pattern I decided to knit it double.
That pattern looks squishyyyyyy! Headbands are so great for gifts, bet your friend is gonna love it!
Last week I promised to cast on a new sock project ready for today. But I tangled the yarn pretty disastrously and spent last night sorting it out, so this is far as I've got. Totally still counts as a WIP though, right? ๐
The yarn was hand-dyed for me as part of a craft exchange on Reddit back in 2021. And it's obviously very vibrant and very variegated so I'm not 100% sure what type of pattern it'll look best with. Matching yarns and patterns is still a skill that's mostly beyond me, so I just wing it and hope for the best.
Current plan is to try these Double Eyelet Rib Toe-up Socks because I've made them before and they were really enjoyable and fit me well. But then when the eyelet pattern inevitably gets lost in this yarn I'll probably frog progress and make them vanilla instead. Either way I'm gonna love them just the same!
Is it too hard to knit socks? I pondered on the idea but started watching a tutorial that used 4 double-pointed needles and was like NOPE. Maybe it looks more complicated that it really is?
It 100% looks way more complicated than it is. It's all just basic techniques, but they come together step-by-step to make this 3d-looking wizardry. And sock patterns don't tend to assume any knowledge, they take you through everything one step at a time. If you can knit and purl and increase and decrease you can make socks.
I use one circular needle rather than DPNs, mostly because I'm cheap and didn't want to buy multiple types of needles in the same size, but you can look up "magic loop" technique and that's what I use.
I like to use magic loop or two circular needles for one sock. The double pointed needles make me crazy.
You can knit house socks in worsted weight if you want to finish your first pair faster.
I'm no sock expert. One always ends up a little bigger... :P But I think they are a fun project to make and wear.
thank you for your insight! I looked up a tutorial for the magic loop method and I maaay give it a try after I have more experience with circular needles :)
It's one of those things that takes a lot of describing, so it seems complicated, bit when you're actually doing it it's surprisingly simple.