My first pair of socks! I own the book Sensational Knitted Socks by Charlene Schurch and have knitted her “class sock” to get used to how the gusset and heel construction works. I made that little sock in December of 2011. I can’t remember exactly now, but I believe the book was a Christmas present from my dad who was hinting that he would really like me to make him socks!
Class Sock from Sensational Knitted Socks by Charlene Schurch
I truly had the intention of making him and others socks after trying that little sock I just got busy with other projects and activities that this project I am attempting with my Knits magazines seems to be what will get me started! I noticed flipping through many of the issues that almost everyone of them had at least one sock pattern. Not that I will knit every single one but if I like the pattern it will be a good excuse!
For these Uptown Boot Socks I am using Patons Kroy Socks FX yarn in the Cascade Colors. My gauge was a little funny for this. The pattern calls for size two needles but when I knit up my gauge swatch I wasn’t getting the right numbers. So I knit another swatch with size three which was closer but I figured out that if I knit the smallest size the sock would come out to the dimensions I wanted.
Here you can see me knitting my swatch on size three needles. I only have two skeins of yarn so I had to rip out and reuse the yarn from the swatches in the sock.
Gauge Swatch
A few other changes to the pattern. I decided (mostly because I am worried that I won’t have enough yarn for each sock) to knit only an inch and a half of the rib stitch at the top instead of two and a half. I also knit the leg section to six and a quarter instead of eight inches.
Here is a picture of my progress so far on the first sock! I just finished the gusset and am knitting the top of the foot section until it measures five inches from the gusset. Then I will work the toe. I think I should have just enough yarn.
So far no major problems. Because it is my first true sock I did get a little confused with the heel gusset at first because the pattern gave three rows and the said “continue in this manner” and it took me a second try until I understood exactly what that meant. But all turned out well which made me quite excited.
Below is a more up-close picture of what I have so far. I really like how the coloring of the yarn has worked out. I picked the yarn because it almost has every one of my favorite colors in it! I really love blue/greens, grey and kahki colors as I wear those colors quite a bit.