Here’s the little sock that I made for my new sock blocker keychain my sp8 pal so kindly sent me. It takes so little yarn and so very little time to knit this tiny little sock.
UPDATE: I was asked what pattern I used. It’s the pattern that came with the sock blocker keychain, and I used size 1 needles since the yarn was a touch bigger than fingering weight. [Pattern calls for size 2 needles and fingering weight yarn.
I had gotten something called a “knitting thimble” to put into one of the packages for one of the various swaps that I am in. The more I thought of this little tool, the more I looked at the package, the more I had wished that I had gotten one for myself too. Well I got me one today.
You use it to help keep the yarns seperated when doing intarsia and/or fairisle knitting. I have been using it all evening to work on a Christmas stocking done in fairisle. It is so great, I got it at WalMart and they are around $2.50 each. So if you do fairisle and/or intarsia, or you’ve just about given up doing them because of yarn tangles, get one and try it out. Oh yeah, bellow is a pic of the stocking so far and the red thing on my finger is the thimble. 
July 22, 2006 at 12:29 pm
cute soxie!
how does a thimble keep the yarn from tangling?
July 22, 2006 at 7:26 pm
That sounds like a helpful tool. I usually use one thread in the left hand when doing fairisle, and the other in the right. It is called the Groenlo method here. I am glad that this method works for you.
July 25, 2006 at 9:03 pm
Too cute!! What sock pattern did you use? What size needles? I had been thinking of making little socks as Christmas ornaments for gifts.