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[avendya]

Socks! Someone tell me about socks!

Or, rather, tell me how one gets started on making them. I am a beginning knitter, about two feet into an Irish Hiking Scarf. I was playing around with some size 3 needles, and really, really liked them. It seems like socks are the most common thing made on small needles, and I would rather like a nice warm, fuzzy pair of socks. (Emphasis on warm -- my goal would be socks that can be worn in the house, instead of shoes, by a person with the world's worst circulation.)

DPNs look slightly terrifying, but they are probably manageable, right? Anyone want to give me pattern recs? The nicest looking pattern I've found is the skew sock, but oh dear god complicated stitchwork. (At least to a beginner.) A Coraline sock looks less terrifying, but also less pretty.

So: should I avoid socks for the time being, and knit a couple other things that use increases/decreases (the Saroyan scarf comes to mind), or try to make socks anyway? And, if I should knit socks: pattern recs?

Comments

[copracat]

I found DPNs quite alarming when I started - on the first few rows they wobble around a lot - but once you've got a bit of sock going they settle down and it really is quite easy. If you carefully follow a pattern without thinking too hard about what you you're trying to do the sock just forms out of the yarn. It's amazing!

I found Silver's sock class (search on Ravelry patterns for more info) helpful because it came with plentiful big pictures with arrows pointing to the relevant bits.

I've recently tried the magic loop method (which is done on one set of circular needles) and that was pretty straightforward, too.

Making socks is fun. And you have SOCKS.