Hand-knitting socks/hose

[Tobus]

As a non-knitter, non-engineer and non-mathematical type, I'm impressed!

You're a man of many talents, Tobus.

Cheers,

SM

Eh, thanks, but I'm probably more aptly described as a man of a few acquired skills. If it took talent to knit, I wouldn't be able to do it! I have little to no artistic ability, natural skill, or even good fine-motor control. The cool thing about knitting is that it's pretty much just learning to do two types of stitches. Everything else is a variant or combination of those, applied in certain patterns. Granted, there are hundreds of ways to make those stitches with different knitting styles or techniques, and it takes a while to figure out what works best for each person. But with a little practise, anyone can do it. A lot of people, apparently, spend their knitting lives just following pre-written patterns. The fun part for me is customising and experimenting for perfect-fitting finished products.

But - I'm just getting started, I have a lot to learn, and I could see spending many years at it. So again, if any of the more experienced knitters here would like to share their preferred methods and their reasons why they prefer them, I'm all ears!

Here are a few failed or abandoned projects that I learned some valuable lessons on. Sometimes I unravel projects to re-use the yarn, sometimes I just give up and throw them in the drawer of failure.