It's been a while since I've been able to take a "proper" finished photo. My last few pairs of socks have been for my boys and have been instantly spirited away once off the needles.
These are made with scrap yarn and I used a random stripe generator www.randomstripes.com to give me some ideas for stripe sequences.
In total these used 70g yarn (UK size 6 foot with 2.5mm needles)
25g Grey: for heels, toes, cuffs and stripes
15g Green
15g Blue
5g Pale Green
10g pink
Making socks with leftovers and scraps has to be the most satisfying thing ever
I had a bit of a rush towards the end as I've decided to try and end every month with a finished object - to try and give me a bit of an incentive to actually get things finished
The joys of scrappy socks
If you’ve seen any of my Instagram photos recently you will be under no doubt that I have recently become a tiny bit obsessed with scrappy socks - using up odds and ends of scrap sock yarn to create delightfully odd and mismatching stripy socks.
We all have those tiny bits of sock yarn lying around - too small to be made into a mitered square on the memory blanket (each of my blanket squares needs about 3g) but too much to bear to throw away - and these are the perfect project to make use of them.
Thrifty and colourful - talk about a win win!
If I’m totally honest though the one thing that has put me off scrappy socks in the past has been the words feared and dreaded by all knitters - “Weaving in the Ends”. But, after my friend Tash recommended a life changing new technique to me I have become a total and utter convert to the world of scrappy socks.
The Clasped Weft Join achieves the Holy Grail of the knitting world- being simple to work, super quick and requiring absolutely no end manipulation. Just a quick snip and away you go with the next colour.
I originally learnt the technique by watching the YouTube tutorial filmed by Boston Jen and I highly recommend taking a look - it’s super quick and you’ll have the method down pat after just a few practices.
This makes it the ideal project for when you are travelling or out and about. Just grab a few tiny scraps of yarn (more for a long journey) and a pair of scissors or travel snips and you are good to go.
I’ve knit one sock already and am already well underway with the next. Unusually me for I’m not trying to match them and I can say with some surprise that it really is quite unexpectedly freeing. I am drawing from the same batch of colours and each stripe is 7 rows deep but these are my only ‘self-imposed’ rules.
It's really quite addictive, just to be able to reach into my little bag, grab a new colour, quickly join and away you go. I can predict many more of these colourful, fun socks in my future now.
