Karajini socks

So named because I knitted these as we drove up to Karajini for a camping holiday with our friends the A’s.  I knitted one sock on the way up, and the other sock on the trip home.  It is my second pair of socks, and the ones that I determined how many hours it takes to knit a pair of socks; it is two and half days drive up to Karajini; taking into account that my husband and I shared the driving equally; and that we camped overnight; means it works out to roughly about ten hours per sock, given that I didn’t knit continuously…
Again using the pattern for Ladies Sockettes from Patons Knitting Book No. C11, except that I only did 8 rows of rib at the top, then the rest of the “leg” part in stocking stitch; so much easier and quicker this way.  Knitting in the round means that you are just knitting “knit” stitches all the time and none of that time-consuming yarn forward, yarn back that comes with knitting rib…
Whenever I wear these socks I think about our camping trip in the outback.  It was great fun! even if the drive is a killer…
(if you wish to look it up; Karajini is up in the Hamersley Ranges of Western Australia, about half a day’s drive north from Newman)