You know what? It turns out knitting man size socks isn’t so bad. For size 11 man feet anyway. I think these took about two weeks, knitting on and off. I finished them on Sunday. I powered through the whole freaking leg. I bound of at about 11 that night, I think, things were kind of blurry at that point. Brandt loves them, he put them on walked round and declared them winners. And then asked if I could do Argyles. What did I start?!?
Some Specs:
Pattern: My own standard toe ups with short row heels. Love knitting socks this way.
Yarn: Knit Picks Essential, 2 skeins Grass, 1 Skein Pumpkin. I still have a bunch of yarn left over too, I only used 28g of the 50g skein of pumpkin!
Needles: Knit Picks Circulars, 32″ Size 1, 2.5mm. Used Magic Loop style.
Overall: Love. You can read more about the beginning of these here.
And Ravel them here.
Next up for socks, guess.
If you guessed manly Steelers socks, you’d be correct. I dyed up a couple of skeins last week, and should be able to eek out Game Day socks for the both of us out of these.
They’re fantastic! I’d love to see you make some argyles too 🙂
Size 11 argyles?!? I’m woozy just thinking about it.
Fantastic man socks! I bet he has been enjoying those warm socks, its been so chilly! Game day socks? How cool!
I love the complimentary color of the green and orange. I can’t wait to see the Steeler’s socks. I just love that color combination.
Very nice… Although I think you have just created a
handmade sock craving monster:) My DH keeps asking me when I am going to make him another pair of socks. Poor man he’s been waiting for months now. I guess he doesn’t understand the whole selfish knitter
mentality Ha!
Go Steelers! 🙂
Aw, man I want some Steelers socks! And some Colts socks! What a great idea!
Hi Julia,
Just wanted to say that I love the black and gold colors – even though they are Steelers colors, it is also my son’s high school colors and they are VIKINGS! He is a size 14 shoe, so I will be knitting those buggers for a WHILE.
Shelley
Great color!
I still am amazed that you made man-socks on size 1 needles. Let alone that you are actually going to repeat the amazing feat! 😉
Nice socks! They turned out nicely! Wondering if you were going to do an update – didn’t see one yesterday and so far today 🙁 I am craving some of the orange variegated for some Halloween wardrobe updating.