My first package from Denmark has arrived!

I'm so sorry for the silly question but I'm struggling to figure out what to do.

I've knit 2 and a 1/4 pairs of socks from the Hermione Everyday sock pattern with some fancy yarn from the local yarn store. I decided to make socks for Christmas presents since I can make them fairly quickly and bought drops Fable yarn due to the price.

I cannot get to gauge without it looking super holy. I started with 2.5mm dpns and the stitches were looking loose and holy so I switched to 2.25mm and now the cuff was too tight . I finally caved and did a guage swatch with the 2.5mm and I got 28 stichs for 4inch and the pattern calls for 36. But the swatch looks holy and not very warm for socks. It looks like on Ravelery most projects for this pattern and this yarn use the standard 64 cast on stitches and 2.25mm needles.

Should I cast on more starting stitches and go to the 2.25mm dpns? Is it just me being stupid?

Does anyone use sock knitting machines to create the tubes? I looked online and its either the 48 needle ones that are reasonable(ish) or the ones with 64 (which matches hand knitting) that are in the thousands.... is there anything that isnt thousands of dollars and can make adult socks?

How would you know if floats are too tight? At the moment, these fit over my heel, and fits well, a little tight to stretch the sock over my heel though.

I know how to ladder down and fix a dropped knitted stitch but I'm having problems if I mess up one of the edge stitches on the flap because it's a slipped stitch then a knitted stitch. It gets all twisted when I try to ladder up and I think it must be something about the slipped stitch every other row. Can anyone point me to a tutorial? Thanks in advance!

Another pair using the last bit of yarn from a skein. My friend went to Australia and sent me the colorful yarn. It’s Patons Australia Patonyle Artistry in the Sunrise Mix color way. The contrasting toes and heels are Madelinetosh Twist Light in the Ghost color way.

The socks include elements from a few patterns. The toe up construction and ribbing are from the Time Traveler sock pattern. The mini-gusset on the instep is from the Up & Down Vanilla Swirl sock pattern. The shadow wrap heel is what I learned from Earth Tones Girl on YouTube. I continued the ribbing up the legs of the socks and bound off in pattern.

On to the next pair!

I started making a pair of vanilla socks thinking that a busy, showstopper yarn warrants a simple pattern, but I’m not quite sure I vibe with them as they are.

I’ve tried making Hermione socks with a similarly “fast paced” variegated yarn and ended up frogging those since it looked really choppy and odd.

Any pattern suggestions? Or am I thinking way too hard about this and should just continue?

Current WIP: Drops Garnet Glow socks in Loops and Threads Delicate DK. These will be for my oldest daughter for the holidays. This is my first time doing a diamond heel. Not sure how I feel about it. It seems like the front of the sock will be bunchy on the shin. What has been your experience with diamond heels? Also can’t get over how much this yarn looks like a sunset 😍

So I'm having a problem that only when I knit socks my tension is extremely tight. Like I was working on the Stoneknit sock, and I had to use two sizes up needles just to make them big enough to fit my feet. I'm not sure how to loosen my tension since it's only when I knit socks. Should I just continue using larger needles or try to figure out my tension problem?

No pattern. Personal recipe. Yarn is Knit Picks Felici in Silent Movie.

Socks for a friend based on Midwest Nice Socks by Sock Witchery but I didn't take the pattern down the foot. The yarn is unknown origin and fibre from a charity shop. Not sure the pattern and the yarn are a match made in heaven but kind of works.

A gift for my cousins girlfriend, pattern is Read it in the Cards by Charlotte Stone . Black is cascade yarns heritage sock, the purples are two separate minis , both by superglo fiber