Will Knit Socks for Lobster

dusty

dusty

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I finished a pair of deep red wool socks last week and am now halfway through a pair of smooth wool forest green socks for a client. Knitting them makes me very happy. Wish I could post pics. After these are finished I will make a pair of fingerless mitts with some of my handspun, and then finish all my handpun before I buy any more commericial wool.

Has anyone here knitted socks now or in the past?
 

What's lobster ?


I learned to knit when I was 7 years old in infant school... ...I've always been able to knit. Boring as it is...

I taught myself to crochet just soon after my daughter was born.... I prefer that to knitting it's faster..

I have OA in my fingers now, so it's too painful for me to do either...
 

I learned when I was a kid but never really took to it, the same with sewing.

It never made sense to me to spend more money and do all of that work to make something that I could buy ready made for less money and no work.

My mother and her mother made all sorts of wonderful things.

For them, knitting and crocheting seemed to be a form of therapy or escape.
 
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I've been wondering, too. Maybe this guy is a friend of Dusty's so she knit him some socks. Now we know why the mittens will be fingerless.
 
dusty said:
I finished a pair of deep red wool socks last week and am now halfway through a pair of smooth wool forest green socks for a client. Knitting them makes me very happy. Wish I could post pics. After these are finished I will make a pair of fingerless mitts with some of my handspun, and then finish all my handpun before I buy any more commericial wool.

Has anyone here knitted socks now or in the past?
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The only thing I ever knitted was a square for the Red Cross to be connected to other squares for a quilt.
 
About 20 years ago, I wanted to learn how to knit and it took me a really long time to be able to knit just a scarf. I made a scarf for everyone that I knew that wanted one.

Then for a number years I made 500 scarfs a year and gave them to a local homeless shelter that gave them out for Christmas gifts. They would let people pick the scarf that they wanted. I made them for men, women and children. Now I make them when a friend wants one.
 
Taking this literally & just for fun.

Seems like a nice idea but wool socks for lobsters might be investigated by PETA. Wool would soak up water to make movement really difficult & really accessible to predators

Curious.
Lobsters range in size & weight so where does one start for size for the socks?

I'll wait for dusty to explain
 
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