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Given how much I enjoy knitting socks, encourage others to try knitting socks, and basically never stop talking about knitting socks, I thought you might all appreciate the project notes from my first ever socks.

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[โ€“] meggied90@lemm.ee 3 points 1 year ago (3 children)

I too love knitting socks!! I only wear my own socks these days, they're just so comfy and they always have fun colors.

But the real question is: are you team Toe Up or team Top Down?

[โ€“] QTpi@sh.itjust.works 5 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

Team top down except for that one time I started at the heel. I was not convinced that it was going to work. I felt the need to sacrifice a chicken to make the dark magic work correctly. I'm currently contemplating a toe up pattern. It's a helix rib without a heel... The idea being I don't have to make a new sock when my munchkins outgrow the ones I just finished ๐Ÿฅด. Anyone have any experience with heelless socks?

[โ€“] constantokra@lemmy.one 4 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Team top down can't store their ball of yarn in the toe of the sock they're working on.

[โ€“] meggied90@lemm.ee 4 points 1 year ago

You are a genius, I never thought of doing this before!

@constantokra @meggied90 Oh my god how have I never thought to do this

@meggied90 Toe-up gang for life! Except for all the times I knit top-down, of course ๐Ÿ˜‚

(also these first ones that I hated were toe-up, so that put me off for a while, but I came back around lol)