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2-at-a-Time Socks: Revealed Inside. . . The Secret of Knitting Two at Once on One Circular Needle Works for any Sock Pattern! by Melissa Morgan Oakes is one of the best books on knitting two socks at the same time. The only weakness in my mind is that none of the patterns are toe-up!

Truthfully, I’m incapable of doing one sock at a time anymore. I make too many mistakes with any given pattern and it makes it so much easier to have matching socks when you are knitting both at the same time!

I have knitted the Beloved pattern – mostly without the errata ( http://www.storey.com/books/book.php/y/5/p/0/order_no/67691), but they look great anyway! I found Melissa’s Ravelry group after finishing the leg – and I hate to frog anything. Yes, I am a lazy knitter.

Her instructions are very clear with really clear photographs. There are some corrections in the errata (linked above). This is a great book and belongs in any sock knitters library – from beginner to advanced.

The socks are done! Lots of colors in this yarn without much pooling. DH thinks they look like what a harlequin would wear…

I kind of like the way they turned out. Maybe they will bring me luck…

I am of course the world’s slowest knitter so this pair took me three months to knit.

I started a new pair (no picture yet) from the book 2-at-a-Time Socks by Melissa Morgan-Oakes called Be Mine in Bearfoot yarn in the color Rose Hip. I think they are going to turn out quite nicely. I started this week and am actually on the second cable pattern repeat on the leg!

To keep my mind off things, I have been slowly knitting 2 socks, toe-up on a single circular needle sans pattern. (Well, I am using a formula I learned, but mostly just making it up as I go.)

I love the colorway that I got at Hissy Knits in California. I am actually supposed to be working on a sweater – but socks are so nice and small and portable!

It is taking more time to recover from this surgery than I am accustomed to! I shouldn’t be as tired as I have been. Today is my first day back to work, I wonder how it will go?