Just over a year ago, with some help from work friend L, I learnt how to knit. It’s been quite a long process which has tested my patience many times. After a year I was starting to get a bit bored with scarfs and woolly hats (or which I now have a drawer full in time for next winter) so was looking for a new project.
After reading yarnstorm over the last year I think I have caught Jane’s contagious passion for socks and hence a pair seemed the most obvious thing to start on.
I managed to find a “Regia Sock Knit Kit” in my local John Lewis and thought that with the enclosed “simple instructions” I couldn’t go wrong. Oh how naive I was.
Firstly, I hadn’t quite realised how difficult working with double pointed needles would be. After quite a bit of help from various YouTube videos and advice from the friendly folk on the INEBG forums I finally managed to master the first part.
I’ve now managed to get as far as getting down to the heel flap.
Next is the daunting stage of turning the heel. I’m petrified!
Time to work up courage on another scarf me thinks. With the weather the way it is at the moment I may even need one soon!
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