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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?

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[maegquare]

About a year and a half here. :D I don't know how I lived so long without knitting till now, because I've become obsessed. ;)

It's the August Mystery KAL in the Fingerless Gloves Fanatics group on Ravelry. A new clue every Monday this month and the pattern stays free till September, I think. So we're on clue 3 this week and just attached the thumbs. Great group, btw, if you haven't already joined.

[ambersweet]

I am a member of that group but I'm bad about checking in on it. I'll totally have to go look at that, though!