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It Has Begun

As I planned for my trip to the farm, knitting had to be a part of the things to go with me.  Since knitting food requires a wide selection of colours and sizes of yarn and needles, taking such projects was dismissed.  Instead I grabbed four small skeins of sock yarn and an Ann Budd book.


Some time ago I purchased Ann Budd's Getting Started Knitting Socks.  This book is perfect for a beginning sock knitter.  She takes the reader step-by-step through types of yarns and needles as well as different styles of socks from basic single coloured socks to stripes, and cabled and lace socks.  This small book is also full of tricks about how to get great results.

As I flew I read the book and started a sock, by the time I arrived at the farm I had all the ribbing done.  The yarn I am using is a merino wool named Ambiente by Schoppel Wolle from Germany.  Each ball was 50 grams or 155 meters.  This was going to be barely enough for each sock so there was not much room for fiddling with the yarn.  I had to measure accurately not to over use it in any section of the sock.



And here is the first sock.  I am pleased, a tip from the book helped me avoid the hole at the gusset and I love the three by one ribbing which matches the stockinette stitches of the main body of the sock very well.  One done, another to go.

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