>Socks are intrinsically easy: a tube with a bend in it; all you really need
>are clear instructions for making the bend.
If you make tube socks you don't even have to worry about the bend. The
first 3 pairs of socks I made were from the spiral tube socks in Spin-Off's
Socks booklet. I'm terrible at giving directions, but if you can't find
this book, it's basically:
Cast on 66 stitches (or any multiple of 6 depending on gauge) and K3 P3 for
as long as you want the leg of your sock.
For the foot:
Keep up the K3 P3 rib, but every 3rd or 4th row move your ribs over one,
i.e. P1 *K3 P3; continue from *; end round w/ P2. 3 (or 4) rows later move
it over one more (P2 *K3 P3; continue from *; end round w/ P1). Keep this
up until your sock foot is the length of your bodily foot MINUS ~2" and do
the toe.
I won't attempt to tell you how to do the toe myself. Fibernet has plenty
of better knitters than I (not to mention infinitely better explainers) who
can describe decreasing for toes, or you can get this really neat book by
Nancy Bush (I think): _Folk Socks_ (that's right, isn't it? Help me out
here, you folks w/ better memories than mine or bookshelves closer than 15
miles away)... ANYway, that book has a great basic sock pattern w/
variations for toes and heels. It's a neat book all 'round, in fact.
I'll echo Joy, though: socks are really easy. I avoided them for years
out of certainty that they were too hard for me (+ I hated dble-pted
needles) and was truly astounded by how easy they are and yet how
profoundly satisfying. I still am not crazy about d-p needles and tend to
avoid making finer gauge socks in order to spend less time juggling them,
but I like socks.
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In the home of greatest power
The village idiot will come forth
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in nature because it is a product that we can find in our
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George W.�Austin, Texas, Dec. 20, 2000
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