The Cottage Smallholder

***This thread is in response to posts on the crochet thread. I will post any sock related stuff on here in the future. Please feel free to add to it. 

For my friends who are contemplating this jump into the void. I can only say that I was a complete beginner & had virtually no knitting skills & reading patterns scared the pants off me & made my head buzz. 

As I have mentioned before I turned to YouTube for help & knitted lots of very simple things to help my tension & speed etc.  Then I started on socks, using a couple of good books, THIS one & THAT one.  If you look at them on Amazon you will see you don't have to pay their prices, look at the new & used options (just below). They take a little longer to arrive but are usually a lot cheaper. Both books are very good & explain the methods very well. I knit with 2 circular needles, one sock at a time. I find, at the moment knitting 2 socks at a time very irritating......but I might try it again quite soon, now I am more experienced

As to the photos TA, can't see that they will help much as they look just like any normal sock.......other than they look fairly colourful, but that is me, not the method. I promise to get round to it soon but I am a bit hampered by my vertigo at the moment.