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Once apon a sock - the sOctober wrap up edition

I nearly missed this months "Once apon a sock" - for some reason it didn't click in my head that the first Thursday of the month can be before the first Wednesday. So, I'm a dollar short and a day late, but at least I'm here. Here's a picture of the socks I knit in sOctober
I somehow knit 6 pairs, including a pair of knee-highs, a KAL with the Richmond Knitters, sneaker liners, monster socks, thrummed slippers and a pair of baby socks. There is something about sOctober, that lets me knit more socks than is entirely possible - or as one of the Richmond Knitters said "do you have a time turner?" Last year I also knit 6 pairs, which was 4 pairs of crew socks and 2 pairs of sneaker liners. Mixing it up with 6 different styles this year was really fun. I'm joining in with Once-apon-a-sock, hosted by Paula from Spinayarn. Pop over to the linkup to see what everyone is knitting - and to join in in you feel like it. And now I'm off to knit something that isn't socks...out of left over sock yarn, of course. We'll see next month if I manage an entire 28 days without knitting socks - although my mother has asked me for a pair of fancy socks, and Leon didn't get any from this latest batch, and Brent is trying to make Sockvember a thing.
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  1. Paula03 November, 2018

    Holy guacamole! You seriously made the most of Soctober!!! I'm just glad to have finished one pair of shorties...that took me FOREVER :) Isn't it funny how the first Thursday of the month sneaks up on us? I had to make sure I posted Wednesday night so everyone around the world could link up and I almost forgot myself. Don't wait to cast on another pair...you can do it! It could always be Sockvember, right?

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    1. Sharondoubleknit04 November, 2018

      I'm a monogamous knitter, so if I'm knitting socks, I'm not knitting other things, and the husband hasn't has a jumper this year, so he's overdue.

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