I've never made a pair of socks over the course of a weekend before.
I would not have dreamed it possible actually, even for kid sized feet.
Truly, 'kid' sized feet of an almost 8 yr old boy are getting quite close to the size of my own feet. He's a little like a puppy with those huge feet. I often wonder how tall he'll eventually become. Much taller than me, that's for sure.
Instead of using 3 double pointed knitting needles (DPN's) to make these socks, I decided to use a teenie tiny circular by Clover. Size 1, 9" circular to be exact.
Initially it was bothering my hands to use it because the needle itself is so short. I almost gave up on making these with that needle set and cut over to DPN's.
It all seemed to just 'click' at some point, and it was really fast to knit them up. The almost knit themselves really.
If this continues my family may become really REALLY sick of hand knit socks. I take them around with me to swimming lessons, piano practice, soccer...before you know it, a pair or two show up.
Magic!
Yarn by Twisted Limone, one of my favorite shops. Socks hold up VERY well to serious punishment.
Eating cute little turtles is hardly something I intend to start doing.
In fact I was shocked that there are lots of recipes out there for them. I was thinking that they are too adorable to eat. Apparently not!
Anna Hrachovec, the mastermind knitter behind MochiMochiLand just came out with a pattern for a tiny turtle.
I knit this to match my 4yr old's most recent socks. He is actually willing to wear the socks now that he has a matching turtle! Wow, a small miracle.
Mind the Gap self striping yarn in tons of colors, made it easy to find a good color combo that pops.
I'm slipping a couple more photos in here for you, I just cannot resist.
After several hours of hard work, the tiny turtle progressed from the starting link on the ankle to half way up the shin.
He really is small as you can see. Knit on size 0000 needles! Yowza. Teenie tiny.
I am hand quilting away like a mad person, but top secret project so no news of it here.
These little crazy colored socks did get finished recently while on vacation, so I'm sharing a quick snapshot of them with you. Even the presence of my mom's loving coaxing could hardly get the reluctant model to keep them on for more than a couple of moments.
They are done though, and they look adorable. Maybe he will warm up to them. They are slightly big, so he as some time to change his mind and get some use out of them.
The yarn is by British dyer Trailing Clouds.
