monkey socks are such a quick knit!
Apologies to Einstein – this is about relative speed of the knitterly kind. I’m not one of those cool speed knitters. I guess I’d like to be….or rather, I’d like to be able to be one of those cool speed knitters when I hit long patches of stockinette, or something. But I do love the process and can get into a bit of a hypnotic trance watching my fingers. So I don’t mind my own knitting speed, even if it’s not Speedy Gonzales.
I can put in hours of knitting on the wedding shawl and have just a bit of growth to show for it, or I can put in the same amount of time and have more than half a sock, to wit:
monkey see
Granted, since this was the first sock pattern I ever knit, and since I’ve knit four other pairs using this pattern, I can do it in my sleep by now. But the thicker yarn just obviously makes things go faster, and zoom zoom zoom I’ve turned the heel and picked up the gusset stitches. Go, Lori, go!
Cute, right Marnie?
Love that yarn with that pattern! And I sure do know how pleasant it can be to knit something that isn’t in truly tiny yarn. Finishing something is a pleasure, even when you’re very conscious that you’re not in a knitting race.
.-= On her own blog, Anne Campbell just said ..Finishing My Lace Scarf =-.
hey! I just figured out that the next pair of socks in my queue is your design! what a coincidence! i’ll be making your circle socks, in Regia Design Line Kaffe Fassett. i can’t wait to get started on them.