My FB appeal with promises of a season of fresh allotment produce in return drew a blank!
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Knitting socks!Does anybody knit socks any more? Apparently it's done on four needles?
My FB appeal with promises of a season of fresh allotment produce in return drew a blank! I'd like to live as a poor man with lots of money.
- Pablo Picasso Re: Knitting socks!Sadly Not nowadays, sorry
yes they are knitted on 4 needles. http://www.busheyk9.co.uk
If you can't be a good example........ you will just have to be a horrible warning Re: Knitting socks!50 years ago I used to visit a pensioner. Not sure what the idea was really, but at Keele there was a scheme where students could be paired with pensioners who they would visit.
When we first visited she used to knit good socks, but over the 4 years her eyesight or mental powers deteriorated and I was given one with a toe at both ends and several-half turned heels along the way. My sister 'bagged' it to use as a childrens sermon (how you need to follow a pattern in life, or something). The best I got to in knitting was blanket squares and strippy vests for black babies. Dance caller. http://mo-dance-caller.blogspot.co.uk/p/what-i-do.html
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Re: Knitting socks!I knit socks! I LOVE knitting socks
 Would you like some? "Happiness is like a butterfly; the more you chase it, the more it will elude you, but if you turn your attention to other things, it will come and sit softly on your shoulder..." Thoreau.
Re: Knitting socks! I think you have found what you are looking for Mallard  http://www.busheyk9.co.uk
If you can't be a good example........ you will just have to be a horrible warning
Re: Knitting socks!Yay go Froggy
My mum's recently started knitting again and she mentioned using four needles for something, but I'm not sure what it was she was making  Bev x
Our family: my-Lovely-Hubbly and I, Benny and our two little Ladies - Betty and Gloria. RIP dear little Ladies - Lottie, Cottie, Elsie, Dottie, Hilda and Margie. You may have gone, but are never ever forgotten. Re: Knitting socks!Recently a friend asked me to refurbish a brightly coloured jacket for her. The cuffs had gone totally, and due to her failing eyesight she was unable to re-knit them. Out came my Grannie's knitting needles, and I couldn't even remember how to cast on with them! In the end I knitted a welt and joined it up! I used to knit socks years and years ago, and fingerless mits as well, but just stick to jumpers now.
Hope you get sorted Mallard.
Re: Knitting socks!you can get some lovely striped yarn for making socks nowadays I don't make them very often as they're a bit fiddly but they're fun to make.
Julie
“cockerels may crow but it's the hen that lays the egg."
Re: Knitting socks!
PM me for expenses etc. Are you close enough for free veg? If not I'm happy to pay. It's socks for my allotment boots I'm after, so colour doesn't matter.I'd like to live as a poor man with lots of money.
- Pablo Picasso Re: Knitting socks!Sorted
http://www.busheyk9.co.uk
If you can't be a good example........ you will just have to be a horrible warning
Re: Knitting socks!I have pm-ed you
"Happiness is like a butterfly; the more you chase it, the more it will elude you, but if you turn your attention to other things, it will come and sit softly on your shoulder..." Thoreau.
Re: Knitting socks! Hi Mallard,Just thought I'd post quickly to say that I haven't forgotten about you - two friends of ours had early babies over Christmas, so your socks were pushed down my knit-list. I started yesterday though, so they should be done by next weekend "Happiness is like a butterfly; the more you chase it, the more it will elude you, but if you turn your attention to other things, it will come and sit softly on your shoulder..." Thoreau.
Re: Knitting socks!Awwww cute
How about a pic of you modeling the socks???? "Everyone is a genius. But if you judge a fish on its ability to climb a tree, it will live its whole life believing that it is stupid"
Albert Einstein |
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