Every time I find a pair of Bill’s hand knit socks in the laundry, it makes me smile because there is nothing more gratifying than to see someone use an item I have knitted for him. Socks are important to Bill. He likes wool and he likes squishy.
Several years ago I bought this black and white yarn to knit socks for Bill. In the meantime, I learned of something called a sock tube cranking service. In essence, this involves taking a skein of yarn and cranking it on a sock machine. The knitter can stipulate how many stitches she would like in the circumference and the gauge she prefers, that is how many stitches are knit per inch.
When my friend, Rachel, said she was going to send off a few hanks to Freckled Whimsy to be cranked, I decided to send a skein myself. The cranking service took only a few weeks but I let the tube languish. I finally got busy and separated the long tube into sections. I added the heels, cuffs and toes and voila, a pair of socks was born.
PS. These socks were my Valentine’s Day gift for Bill. They are either 33 days late or 332 days early.
Sock Cranking Service: Freckled Whimsy
Sock Yarn: Jawoll Aktion Color by Lang Yarns in Aktion Colorway
Heels, Toes and Cuffs: Patons Kroy in Black
You’re gonna have to explain this one to a clueless one like me. So they do the long part of the sock but you still make those parts that you listed? But you know how to do the part that they did, but theirs is better, or that’s the time-consuming part?
Or it’s just fun to say that you had socks “cranked” for someone? 🙂
excellent…you have opened my eyes to a whole new world….cranked socks!