SUZ SOX

Great K&N yesterday girls..thanks really enjoying my Saturday afternoons

Sparkly was knitting socks again....got to give them ago l say hehehe

thanks for the inspiration Sparkly

SUZ SOCKS begin....

DID MY RESEARCH

 worked out roughly what l was supposed to be doing found this site that gave me the gist of sock making

FOUND SOME YARN AND A HOOK AND OFF I WENT...

FIRST EFFORT hehehe.......not a good shape and BIG enough to fit Phil and yes he will get some

 BUT.....

for now l wanted the 1st pair to fit me

didn't have any proper sock yarn so found a random yarn not sure what it's made of and it's definitely DK not 4ply....sock yarn on the 'to buy' list now!

SO WENT BACK TO THE BEGINNING AGAIN

1st thing to decide l thought was how many stitches l needed using the yarn l had and the hook l had decided on to fit my foot found it was....30 not the 40 l had done with the first effort
I'm using a 4mm hook and the random DK l had
on paper l worked out that working backwards l need to start with 9st chain plus one for the 1st sc

then sc down one side turn the corner with 2 extra sts(that's 3 sts in the end chain)

work back the other side of the chain and do 3sts in the last chain

good so far...22 stitches

increase on the second round with 3sts in one st each end...26sts

next round same again increase each end....30 sts

hurray l got to 30 sts that l needed
continued on with no increase and l did a 6 more rows for the toe (might be to many)
BUT l still had 30 sts in a round...the shape looked better and it was sooo much smaller looked more me size!

oh used a slip st to join each round

then l changed sts to a DC and continued on with the 30 sts each round 

as far as l've got this morning but working so far

and it fits now too!! hehehe

BUT....

They will be thick socks as the yarn is DK too thick really but l'm learning!!

I will get some 4PLY sock yarn asap and make another pair......BUT l have the principle of sock toe making

LOVING THIS SOCK MAKING ALREADY!! lol

Off to do the foot and the heal next and then the leg

cya later 

have  fun Sunday all

xx