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I used to go barefoot almost throughout the year, but with age comes colder feet!
I like knitting socks because it’s rather quick and, as such, it’s rewarding. You can carry your project everywhere.
I chose to try my hand at colorwork on socks and opted to knit A Walk in the Wild pattern* with Plassard Tradi Merino yarn*.
- A Walk in the Wild pattern*
- Plassard yarn* (1 of each color)
- Circular needles* (sizes depending on your swatch and yarn)
Easy-to-knit socks
The design of these socks is top-down.
Instructions are provided in English and French, in separate files. You also have the choice of a diagram with colors or a diagram with symbols for the colorowkr. I do like having a choice.
Three sizes are available (S,M, and L), depending on your ankle circumference.
Instructions are straightforward. For instance, it gives you the number of increases AND the number of stitches you should have after said increases.
The designer also includes the video links to the technical features (Kitchener, stretchy cast-on, etc). There are also QR codes. Very handy for people who, like me, don’t regularly knit and tend to forget.
My first colorwork socks
I had already knitted colorwork accessories and sweaters, but I was a bit impressed by socks and colorwork.
I kept the same colors, i.e. navy blue and beige.
Yarn is Plassard’s Tradi Merino*. It’s made of wool and polyester. Wool for the cosiness and polyester for the stretch.
I wanted home socks so I sized up my needles for my size M. I went with 2.5 mm for stockinette and 3 mm for colorwork.
I wasn’t surprised how the socks were knit: they were knitted like my favorite, Winwick Mum’s socks.
My A Walk in the Wild socks
They are extremely soft and cozy.
Because they’re home socks, I should have bought some Sock Stop* to prevent me from falling down the stairs!
My son asked if they were his…I know what I’ll knit next, but first a merry little project is already on my needles! 🎄🎄🎄
Unexpected bonus
I found this project really fun and soothing. There’s something strangely relaxing in knitting easy colorwork.
I’m a slow knitter because I don’t see the urge of knitting quick. It’s a kind of meditation and you cannot imagine how many people came and asked about what I was knitting while I was sitting in the common room of a physical rehab’ facility, 3 times a week, waiting for a relative. They were either the same persons every other day checking on my progress, engaging a conversation on knitting or any other craft, showing me what they did in occupational therapy (they did some knitting, weaving, drawing) or random strangers, telling me about their lives, their up’s and down’s, their hopes.
Crafting is social. There were times where I wouldn’t get one row done because people would see me and come talking. Others when I had the wife of an in-patient who came and asked me how I knit because she had never seen someone knitting like me (I knit continentale-style, but with a strange way to keep my tension!).
