Positive Negative Socks

I’ve always got a pair of stockinette socks on the needles. Here’s the latest pair:

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I’m planning to make a second pair just like them, so I can choose matching or coordinating, depending on my mood.

Trekking # 183 and #145

52 Comments on “Positive Negative Socks

  1. I really like those colors together.

    And also… what are you doing up so late/ early?
    Posted by: avalynda

  2. I just love Trekking. I think it’s my all-time favorite sock yarn. Just idle curiosity: How many stitches and what size needle do you use for your stockinette socks? I went up to 64 st. (from 60 previously) on my 2.5 mm needles, and I still feel like my sock is going to be SNUG. I’m such a tightass — I mean knitter.
    Posted by: Norma

  3. I really like those colors together.

    And also… what are you doing up so late/ early?
    Posted by: avalynda

  4. I just love Trekking. I think it’s my all-time favorite sock yarn. Just idle curiosity: How many stitches and what size needle do you use for your stockinette socks? I went up to 64 st. (from 60 previously) on my 2.5 mm needles, and I still feel like my sock is going to be SNUG. I’m such a tightass — I mean knitter.
    Posted by: Norma

  5. I love your socks. I always have trouble making the second sock so I learned something from another blogger. Start both pairs at the same time with a second set of needles. Knit on one until the cuff is finished, do the other one the same and just alternate between the two until both are finished at roughly the same time. I’m doing some now and will post them later on my knitting blog…ciao
    Posted by: rositta

  6. I love your socks. I always have trouble making the second sock so I learned something from another blogger. Start both pairs at the same time with a second set of needles. Knit on one until the cuff is finished, do the other one the same and just alternate between the two until both are finished at roughly the same time. I’m doing some now and will post them later on my knitting blog…ciao
    Posted by: rositta

  7. My first handknit socks were orange and gray. My mom had made them for my dad and I got them after they were inadvertantly shrunk and felted into lovely long lasting house slippers and cross-country ski socks.
    Posted by: Shelly

  8. Love the duotone and suspect you of trying to instill the lust for sock-knitting in me. It’s working.
    Posted by: Lizbon

  9. I’m so glad to see you enjoying the stockinette sock. I’m in the middle of my third pair (in a row) and starting to think I might be in a rut. But no: they are wonderful! I love your color combo.
    Posted by: abby

  10. My first handknit socks were orange and gray. My mom had made them for my dad and I got them after they were inadvertantly shrunk and felted into lovely long lasting house slippers and cross-country ski socks.
    Posted by: Shelly

  11. Love the duotone and suspect you of trying to instill the lust for sock-knitting in me. It’s working.
    Posted by: Lizbon

  12. I’m so glad to see you enjoying the stockinette sock. I’m in the middle of my third pair (in a row) and starting to think I might be in a rut. But no: they are wonderful! I love your color combo.
    Posted by: abby

  13. I love trekking and this is a great color combo! I juse made some brown socks with turquoise contrasting heels and toes…I didn’t make the reverse though since I didn’t have a lot of koigu for the contrast (it was scrap yarn from some mitts) But..I am SO going to do this. I love the idea of wearing mis-matching matching socks 🙂 Yup..I am so stealing this idea.
    Posted by: Stephanie

  14. That’s a cute idea, I think I’d like them to be opposites more often than not.
    Posted by: Jaime

  15. Ooo! Cute! I’ve got that Trekking #146 here, a darker, burnt orange, waiting to be played with. Mmmm. 🙂
    Posted by: Lisa

  16. I love trekking and this is a great color combo! I juse made some brown socks with turquoise contrasting heels and toes…I didn’t make the reverse though since I didn’t have a lot of koigu for the contrast (it was scrap yarn from some mitts) But..I am SO going to do this. I love the idea of wearing mis-matching matching socks 🙂 Yup..I am so stealing this idea.
    Posted by: Stephanie

  17. That’s a cute idea, I think I’d like them to be opposites more often than not.
    Posted by: Jaime

  18. Ooo! Cute! I’ve got that Trekking #146 here, a darker, burnt orange, waiting to be played with. Mmmm. 🙂
    Posted by: Lisa

  19. those are rad! i love the subtle striping of both colors.
    Posted by: shannon in oregon

  20. I love making mismatched sox…these are great colors…and btw…your iggy’s are too cute…
    Posted by: Sympol

  21. Those socks are great!

    But I have to wonder … and on the third visit to the blog, I have to ask. What sort of shoes are you planning to wear with them?

    I ask, because, if you cover the heel and toe, you can’t tell that they’re positive/negative or mirror image, or whatever. They’ll just look mismatched.

    Or am I just being too stodgy and conventional as usual?
    Posted by: The Spinning Guy (Kim)

  22. those are rad! i love the subtle striping of both colors.
    Posted by: shannon in oregon

  23. I love making mismatched sox…these are great colors…and btw…your iggy’s are too cute…
    Posted by: Sympol

  24. Those socks are great!

    But I have to wonder … and on the third visit to the blog, I have to ask. What sort of shoes are you planning to wear with them?

    I ask, because, if you cover the heel and toe, you can’t tell that they’re positive/negative or mirror image, or whatever. They’ll just look mismatched.

    Or am I just being too stodgy and conventional as usual?
    Posted by: The Spinning Guy (Kim)

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