Sock Weather

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MimsyKells — Sun, 04 Nov 2012 20:25:05 GMT

Though I haven't tried my hand at knitting socks, I am enamored with it as an idea. I've only received one pair of knitted socks in my lifetime and they were not comfy, but I can't help being convinced that hand-knitted socks must be more comfortable than machine knitted.

Every other piece of knitting I've done has been more comfy than anything I could find in a store. And while it is true that these pieces are (my case) all scarves, that it took only a little less than a dozen or so scarves to "convert" me is powerful proof indeed!

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mcathyt — Sun, 04 Nov 2012 18:15:44 GMT

I love knitting socks because I love wearing them! I love making Tabi socks because I love wearing my flip flops all year round. And I love giving my handknitted socks to my grandchildren because they love them!

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wendygregersen — Sat, 03 Nov 2012 19:36:11 GMT

Can someone tell me where the download is for a MAC version of this season's Sockupied magazine?

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Helen Kepner — Sat, 03 Nov 2012 15:40:18 GMT

Trying to find a pattern to knit 2 socks in 1 called double knitting

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PattyJ — Fri, 02 Nov 2012 17:30:13 GMT

I've knit several dozen pairs. I like knitting them because: portable project, lots of ethnic variety, different shaping methods, fairly quick to finish a pair. And I like wearing them because they cover up my nasty compression hose.

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Miriam Kenning — Fri, 02 Nov 2012 16:46:00 GMT

Ok....all I want to do is learn how to knit socks and mittens. I'm a kinetic sort.....

and don't "sit" for hours. But so want to learn!!!!! I've tried twice to knit socks and have two half socks ...... where is there a pattern, help??? Thanks!

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Lynn058 — Fri, 02 Nov 2012 16:34:00 GMT

Thanks to "magic loop", I can still knit socks.......my hands can't handle double points anymore very well.......but with only one needle to handle, I can still knit my most favorite of items .............socks!!.................................................L.B.

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DianaBurrell — Fri, 02 Nov 2012 15:28:38 GMT

I agree with KayH below ... using Sandy to sell an online sock magazine was in really poor taste. Have you seen what people -- knitters and non-knitters alike -- are going through in places like New Jersey, West Virginia, and New York? Being able to download your magazine and finding time to knit socks is the least of their problems.

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sultan05us — Fri, 02 Nov 2012 15:16:46 GMT

Mmm socks! I am currently living in NYC with no power and these socks look really good! Let me tell you that knitting with my headlamp has kept me sane. Have completed a 64" scarf in superfine Merino and silk/stainless steel, all the parts of a mohair/silk shrug and am working on a hand dyed denim scarf! While everyone searches for power outlets to satify their endless need for electricity, I am finding solice in knitting and the old ways - boiling water to bath, eating simply, walking to work and finally climbing under my wonderful 900 fill goosedown duvet with my little transistor radio safter an hour or two of satisfying knitting. I am so grateful to have a roof over my head, needles and glorious yarn to make something useful with. Tom Kennedy

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MB@FabricUiPhoneApp — Fri, 02 Nov 2012 14:47:13 GMT

Socks...now there's an accessory that I can't seem to get myself fascinated with...but sock yarn? Now that's another story as long as I can make something else with it.

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sjc2 — Fri, 02 Nov 2012 13:30:37 GMT

So I see you started the KAL without me, and if without one very likely a lot of others who "voted" and thought they were included. Thanks a heap. This is one frustrating website and you are getting things so fouled up that it's really not much worth checking in here anymore. It had possibilities but seems to have lost its vision of the future.

And I second the idea expressed by the above poster. You've apparently never had to be on the butt end of such a disaster; I've no clue what might have been appropriate commentary in such a case--"none" flies to the front of my own mind-- but I would prefer that salespeople stick to what they know (although in this case, mucking up something as simple as a KAL, for the second time, may indicate that the sales side needs help too).

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Canada Sue — Fri, 02 Nov 2012 13:17:13 GMT

Ahh socks.Fun to knit,project small to transport,recipients love to get them and such a varuety of patterns to chose from.You can never have enough sock patterns.I continue to purchase more sock books and still am not satisfied.I am a sockaholic

Canada Sue

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KayH@21 — Fri, 02 Nov 2012 13:13:55 GMT

I think is was very inappropriate to light heartedly mention flooding and hurricanes in an article about knitting socks. Children and others died during the storm. Need I say more??