FINISHED! January Socks

My husband absolutely loves his hand knit socks, so I’ve made a promise to myself that this year I will focus on making him at least a pair of socks of month. In fact, that is one of my only “knitty goals” this year, one whole #boxosox for my very very supportive and knitworthy partner. I have of course also set very arbitrary goals, like an entire box of Christmas themed socks. I’ve even gone so far as to very recently acquiring a Christmas sock yarn stash. Both of these pairs of socks happen to be from that stash, although it may not look so on first glance.

These stripes socks are my “Jack and Sally” socks, based of course on the characters from the movie The Nightmare Before Christmas, which is arguably equally a Christmas and Halloween movie. I knit them out of a self striping yarn from Nomadic Yarns in the colorways Sally (the main body) and Jack (the contrast). The base is her “trusty” base- a 75/25 merino/nylon blend which I do think is my favorite base of theirs. It comes in a relatively generous skein, at 462yds/100grams, but also holds up extremely well to wear.

The speckled socks I finished in December, but I just recently blocked them so I thought it would be fun to share them together. The main body yarn is Yuletide by Jawbreaker Yarns with a Knit Picks Stroll heel and toe in Holly Berry

For my husbands socks, I just follow a basic formula. I cast on 72 stitches using a US1 nine inch circular needle. For these socks I did a two by two ribbing, and a simple short row heel. My husband likes his sock legs to be five inches, for peeking out of his boots but not being overly long (or maybe I convinced him he liked that length so I am not knitting 20 inch tubes). I sadly ran out of my contrast mini on my second sock, and just knit with whatever I had wound off the skein before starting the second sock to make up for the extra toe length.

Have you set any gift knitting goals this year?
xo-LJ