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Let’s talk socks

 Again it’s been so long since I last posted. And again a lot has happened in this past month. I started radiation treatments and I’ve had nine so far, I will need to have 31 altogether. It’s thrown my schedule off a lot because my treatments are in the morning and it takes two hours of driving to and from. By the time I get home I’m tired, so I usually take a nap. There goes half my day. 

So what I have to write about is knitting. I have been doing a lot of knitting. I will share what it is I have been working on. 


right now I just wanna focus on the pair of socks that I started back in the fall. I’ve finished one and now I am working on the toes of the other one. I did my own pattern so I do not have one to share. I did 64 stitches, a 2 x 2 ribbed cuff, And stockinette for the body.


then the toe and heel I got out of this book here, which is very informative. It gives formulas for heels and toes so basically you can either do the patterns they provide or you can mix and match to make up your own pattern. I should have these done by tomorrow 


then I can get on with this pair I started last year.

 I want to start this paired here called the Forest Path. I ordered the yarn and Pattern a month or so ago and I just now received it in the mail. I love getting happy mail.





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  1. sandi sMarch 24, 2021 at 7:24 PM

    I love your sock pictures! They are beautiful. I love the colors for the stripe socks. They will be really cute. Hugs,

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  2. CathieJMarch 25, 2021 at 4:49 AM

    I really do have to try to knit socks someday. I really like those yarns and the striped pair is a pretty pattern. Hugs.

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