The Knitting Fiend

Topic: Hand Knit Socks.

As you know, I’ve been obsessing about socks lately. I more sock articles than you can shake a stick at; my official entry was my mismatched sock haiku.

So, here I am knitting sock after sock after sock… and I announce a carnival topic on sock, and what does Erika say:

I haven’t yet felt the urge to knit socks.

She gives her reasons. I read her reasons; to the consternation of Crones of the Craft everywhere, they do not include “fear of turning a heel.” And because her reasons have nothing to do with fear, I suspect it’s going to be a long time before Erika knits socks.

She just doesn’t want to knit them. And, if she doesn’t want to knit socks, why should she? I didn’t knit my first pair until I’d been knitting 20 years.

Yet, I suspect, if Erika keeps knitting she will eventually knit some socks. Someone near and dear will long for closeness that comes from wearing something inconspicuous knit by a loved one; and socks will sprout to fit their feet.

As Karen who knit socks for her mother observes:

Nothing says love more than a pair of hand knitted socks.

Of course, socks do say love. They also say “I knit.” Imagine Lori’s glee when she took her son to her LYS and he picked out sock yarn, which she reports he may be planning to knit up himself! (Hey, knitting socks also says “I love Mom’s family traditions!” )

But you know, knitting socks also says “I love to figure things out.” Sarah, who looks like a fairly young knitter has figured out socks, knitting and finding neat patterns. In fact, she seems to have found something called a “pattern generator” to create a pattern for her socks. Fancy that!? (Hopefully, she won’t find the directions confusing. Hopefully, if she does, she’ll know to email me a question!)

One thing, I know for sure, Sonja won’t need to ask questions. She’s a pro at knitting socks and bangs them out by machine. You can see several pair knit from Lorna’s Laces at her site! It’s 10 F where she lives and she needs the socks. (I should get my machine out and bang out several pair myself!)

So, as you see, there are plenty of knitters, young and old, male and female, beginning and advanced, knitting and blogging about socks.

Good thing! It means The Fourth Carnival Of Knitters has more entries than the Third!

But, I need to inform readers, I’m cheating. I wanted to have a longer Carnival, so I added some who didn’t actually enter. Anyway, I couldn’t help myself. The fact is, I can be scatty and lose track of emails. So, I wasn’t sure I might not miss one of the entries. To make sure I didn’t miss any Carnival Entries, I entered “Carnival Knit Socks’ at Technorati.

Imagine, what I discovered?

Sharon knit her guy socks using Opal yarn and managed to use all three magic words in her blog post. Two are here:

I’d love to knit him a pair of socks in “Carnival”

She didn’t really mean to enter this carnival, but how could I leave her out?

Socks being what they are, and “carnival” turning out to be a variety of sock yarn, other people were also using the words “sock or socks” “knit or knitting” and “carnival” in a single post. Yes indeed:

Kaitlin at Sassy Stitches frets about how to distribute the stitches on her socks:

I had to call Lisa last night to be sure that it was okay to have the stitches distributed unevenly between the two circular needles (it is!)

Michelle noted that her knitting schmoo has knit many things, but

one thing she has never made is socks.

So, Michelle is determined to expand her schmoo’s horizons and has sent her a sock knitting care package.

Yes. Hand or machine knit socks, and sock care packages say both “I love you!” and “I need to warm my tootsies.” And this wraps up The Fourth Carnival Of Knitting!