My sock journey continues.
After knitting quite a few (as in I have no idea now how many I've made) pairs on flatbed machines and having to seam them, then knitting a couple of pairs on a flatbed/ribber combo, and even having knitted Three. Whole. Pairs. by hand, I finally bought the perfect thing for making socks: a circular sock knitting machine.
My machine is the Speedster, from the Erlbacher Gearhart Knitting Machine Company in Cape Girardeau, Missouri. It arrived in mid-March, beautifully packed in its reusable box.
I had a bit of a rough start, because the part that trips the row counter was loose and got caught. Once that issue was corrected, it was a bit of a learning curve - but as of today, I've made eleven pairs of socks with it, including two pairs of tabbed footies that I absolutely love as they stay on all night in bed and work great in my walking shoes.
