My first socks!

I feel like there are a few big milestones in every genre of crafting. In garment sewing, it might be making your own jeans, or conquering a certain fit challenge - you know, that thing that makes you think, "Hey, I CAN sew!" For me, one big knitting milestone is socks. If you stop and think about it, socks are kind of complicated beasts. They have to fit around all sorts of crazy curves, but still be comfortable and, ideally seamless.

And so I put on my big girl pants and did it. I knit socks!! If you're a Raveler, my notes are here. Ok, they're wee socks and knit with worsted weight yarn so they went really fast, but they are honest to goodness, knit in the round with shaped heels socks. Myra is modeling them for you, despite the fact that they are actually Duncan's size. She insists that they are hers. At least she appreciates them.

Looky! Heel flaps and gussets! You have no idea how exciting it was when I turned the heel and it actually was a sock. Actually, maybe you do have an idea, if you've knit a sock. It was like magic. Sort of like when you are stitching in a lining, and you turn it in and all of a sudden, you have a finished dress. Magic.

So, you've probably noticed that they are two different colors. That is because the pattern I used was the Sample Sock from the book, 2 at a Time Socks. The book aims to teach the knitter to knit socks two at a time. You probably figured that out from the title. Apparently it is really easy to get your two socks mixed up during the knitting and end up with conjoined socks, so for the first pair, you knit them in two different colors so that it is obvious if you start knitting one sock with the other sock's yarn.

Although I managed to get through these with a minimum of giant mistakes, they are far from perfect. The most glaring goober is at the toes, which should be grafted with Kitchener stitch. Mine is a sad, loopy mess. My next knitterly task is to learn Kitchener stitch. Then I have several skeins of sock yarn that are actually going to fulfill their destiny and become socks.