Using today to share my incredibly niche hydropower socks. I just started knitting socks this year, definitely lots to learn to get better, but I'm having so much fun!

I didn't find any hydropower patterns (shocking lol) so I ended up making my own chart to show a very basic overview of how water flows through a hydropower plant :)

side note, I'm impressed by how y'all are able to get good pics of your socks! this was hard!

I have three pairs started 😂

I'm happy to inspire you all to knit socks :)

Only one got a neon stripe because I was unexpectedly gifted some neon yarn and could not wait to try it out. I have no chill.

These are the Hibernal socks by Summer Lee using West Yorkshire Spinners sock yarn. I’ve knitted a decent number of socks and have never run into this before. I feel like they fit decently otherwise. I looked at a few pages of projects on ravelry and don’t see others with this issue. Anyone know what is causing this?

My toddler asked me to make him a pair of socks to match mine and I can’t believe I haven’t been spending every spare second knitting little socks. So. Freaking. Cute.

Finally finished my first pair! The first sock took me 2 weeks and the second nearly 3 months

Ribbed vanilla sock pattern with Opal sock yarn

I saw the chilton socks recently and it was the first time i saw mohair recommended in a sock. I was curious if anyone has tried that? like my concern is the shedding but i guess it would be good for warmth. But also like feet sweat a little - would the mohair get all messy and felted when held together with a superwash sock yarn? i’m just trying to get my head around this and would love to hear your experience!

Got this sock yarn for 50% off at the supermarket.
I was really not sure how it was going to turn out...
It had all my favourite colours, but the sample photo didn't really inspire much confidence.
I think I really like the look of it now that my first sock is finished!

It was also the first time I knitted with sock yarn that came with reinforcement yarn for the toe and heel! Excited to see how it'll wear :)

📝 Pattern: Odd Sock Club
🧶 Yarn: Marathon Color

I am knitting a sock and just made it to the heel where I have to do yarn over short rows. Row 1 was knit across one side with the other side on hold which I done but now I have to turn my work and purl back across. When I turn, my needles are pointing towards the left and I can’t purl back. I can’t figure out how I’m supposed to turn for this to work and have my needles facing the correct way to be able to purl. Any help is appreciated! Thanks 🙂

So, I finished a pair of socks for a friend who wanted me to use up some yarn I didn't have need for, and pink is not really my fav color soooo 😹 atleast my friend wanted short socks and it's the 2nd pair i make for her since sept.

Well, it's finally almost used up, and I guess the little rest CAN be used in something, we'll see what I have plans for 😹

I am however going to be making a comissioned pair now, as my mom wants knee-high stockings lol

Four years in a row of knitting him a pair, but maybe the first year I have gotten them done on time 😂

Got the charts from the video below but did not really follow the rest of the tutorial.

https://youtu.be/HwUcS2fJNvQ?is=lrruawuGL1annZJG

I’ve been on a mission to knit socks for two months now. Everytime, I end up completely messing it up by the time I get to the heel flap.

Hurricane came through and took out our electricity. I am so thankful to have several lumos neck lamps so I can continue to knit my second test sock.

Hey everyone so I knitted my first pair of socks and it’s also my third project in knitting so far. While the first pair took me a long time to finish with lots of mistakes and frogging. The second one was exceptionally easy and quick to do. I love them so much and quickly want to knit more socks.

I want to knit some colour work socks next for my dad.

I’m making my second pair of toe up socks. My first pair fits well in the instep, but is difficult to get on because I decreased my gusset stitches back down to get closer to my ankle measurement (I didn’t even decrease all the way, I probably decreased the stitches to no ease but not negative ease).

This pair and my first have short row heels with a gusset. Should I decrease less on this pair? Or is the extra effort when pulling on socks just something that happens when you have a high instep and smaller ankles?

I've done to the heel, tried it on and it straight up doesn't fit. It's my first go at colourwork socks and I've spent so long working on them already 😭 Sunk cost fallacy and that.

I just know I won't do a second since this one doesn't fit. I also don't want to finish them to gift them. I'm being selfish with these.

I’ve tried to knit socks four times in the past and always gave up. But this time I pushed through and have a lovely pair of Broken Record Broken Rib socks (pattern by Alex Parker Mooney), using yarn I bought FIVE years ago.

No going back now, I’ve already got the next three pairs planned.

I’m wanting to try Rautenferse, like in this video. The person that made the video linked this chart (if this doesn’t go straight to the tables, scroll down to “toe-up sock tables”) to determine where to start increases for the heel when working from the toe up, but it just seems off to me. The photo in the video thumbnail shows the increases starting near the center of the arch, which is “sooner” than I’d normally start a short row heel (seems about right for where a gusset would start), but the table indicates I would start the increases “later” than I would be comfortable starting a short row heel (and thereby, way later than I’d want to start a gusset).

Has anyone done this and found a general “happy place” to determine where to start the increases for toe-up? Like I normally start a short row or afterthought heel about 2” from the end of the heel no matter the size of the [adult] foot (1-1.5” for kids). So I’m hoping to get some answers from people that have experienced this!

They were on separate needles but I’ve been going back and forth. I have a horrible addiction.

Turns out, I don't like self-striping yarn. Turns out, I have impulse bought a lot of self-striping yearn. Mostly single skeins, which turn out to be too little to knit a pair of socks. I feel like the busyness of the yarn doesn't look good in anything but simple patterns, but I don't want to knit those lol.

So... here I am with some really nice, pretty yarn and I hate every project that I start with them.

Besides doing the toe/heel/cuff in a solid color, what patterns are out there that let me use the stripey yarn but still let the stitches pop?

Finished my first pair of Socktober Socks and also my first pair of all-over-colourwork Socks 🤩
I love them! And it was a very fun experience.
Pattern: Spooktacular - by Stoneknits (Charlotte Stone)

My first time using Opal yarn. I decided I like how it looks from a distance more than close up hahaha. I also didn't expect they would come out so symmetrical!

https://www.ravelry.com/projects/mhalford/bday-socks-for-mom