I’m not sure how it happens, but the more children I have the more serious the sock situation has become. Retro Daddy still asks where do all the socks go….I honestly don’t have the answer for him. I know some have been lost in shops or while out walking …but they must be somewhere….here is just one of my piles of socks waiting for their partner…..
this morning I finished up a little pair of socks for miss tillie and am hoping they stay together. I love this pattern for 2 needle socks from Debbie Bliss Baby Cashmerino 2…this pair are made in Cleckheaton Merino Bambino and are so soft n snuggly.
so far so good…..they are still on!
There sure are many single socks out there looking for their mate! It is a common theme at my house too. The little socks you made are gorgeous! I hope they are destined to stay together.
Rita
Lovely socks! We too have a pile of socks and I just can’t bare to throw them out. Some have gone from Vic to Tassie, back to Vic and now here in the top end, where we don’t even wear socks! lol
such sweet socks!!!!
have no idea where the socks go either!
Oh they are so cute those knitted socks. I would much prefer them on 2 needles than 4 to knit with sometimes. Isabelle’s prep teacher said that hers used to disappear in the washing machine so she used to pin them together for each wash and never lost them after that. As for shopping with babies, I used to make sure Isabelle had little shoes on that wouldnt come off as I got tired of trying to think where the lost sock was.
to ME as the single sock queen so I know whee you are coming from. And our pile has expanded rapidly since Austy now takes off his socks as soon as he’s indoors (with his shoes) and he’ll generally leave them both inseparate rooms. Tillie’s socks are cute – remind me of the few pairs I have made Maddy and the few single socks I’ve made for both kids and never made a pair for… oops! I guess they’d end up that way eventually, huh.
Oh, and another comment from me – when you know the socks are definitely single and will never find their pal again, or else are grow out of before the pal is rediscovered, turn them into hand puppets for the kids with buttons for eyes and wool scraps for hair and maybe a nose. The kids size socks fit kid sized hands and they love them. Well Austy loves his anyway, and had a ball crafting them with me, cutting the wool for lengths of hair and picking out buttons, and sticking on felt tongues. They don’t look fantastic but he had fun making them and playing with them and the sock pile is now a few socks smaller. Smiles all round.
my kids just wear odd socks. I told them it’s more interesting that way….
I was determined this year to have plenty of socks so at the start of the year went out and go a good supply for all the kids, only 7mths later and I am back to a single sock pile and kids telling me ‘I have no socks’!!
Love the little socks you made, gorgeous!
Last week I emptied the lost sock bin and took anything reasonable to school to make sock toys. The rest got binned….It is quite liberating really…
Corrie we to have this problem only i have no shame in sending my kids to day care with odd socks
your little knitted ones are divine
Love those socks you made, beautiful and they look so comfy! I’m planning to learn how to knit socks some of these days too.
By the way, about those single socks: Do you know about craft hope? If you are looking for a good purpose for those single socks, then maybe you’d like to know that they just launched project nr. 4. I just read that and then I read your post. Talking about coincidence!
How do you know when the time has come that you’ll never find its partner again?? I keep them until I know they will no longer fit the kids so no use waiting for its pair to turn up. Terribly sad reall!
Ah socks! I make sure they go into the washing machine together then I hang them in their pairs on the line and fold them together before they go back into the house. I still lose one occasionally but generally speaking it solves the problem. Those sock you’ve knitted are adorable, Corrie. I hope Miss Tillie can keep them together!
Don’t you hate the lone sock conundrum. I have about 6 permanently at the bottom of my washing basket, waiting wistfully for their partners. Just when I’ve given up hope and discard the odd sock, it’s pair turns up.
Someone gave Adelaide the most divine pair of lambskin booties. They simply never come off and she hasn’t needed socks at all. Thank goodness for that.
I have the same problem with our socks.
Those are sweet little socks.
We have the same problem here – must be a sock monster.
Awwww, those new little socks are so cute — especially on those cute little feet! Good luck finding out where the socks have gone — I always thought our extras went down the drain and ended up in…Australia!!!