I was reading on the Yarn Harlot’s blog recently that she had to have a sock model and at the time I wondered why she couldn’t just take a pic of the socks on her own feet? As it turns out, you have to be crazy flexible to get really nice pics of your socks on your own feet. I am not a contortionist, so here’s a pretty good pic of my first sock on my own foot!


This sock also includes my first attempt at grafting. At one point TH asked who I was talking to as I singsonged “knit, purl, purl, knit”. I had to explain that the directions said that I should chant while I grafted. :)

I’ve been knitting for awhile and had yet to tackle socks. They seemed complicated because you have to make them fit as opposed to baby blankets which are one size fits all or baby hats that are grown into at some point.

But, to be a real knitter, instead of the fake knitter than I am?… I thought I should take on socks and at some point a sweater, so I cast on for my first pair of socks about a week ago.

Also, I was motivated by the rumor that hand knitted socks feel better on your feet than store bought socks. I suspected they didn’t actually feel better, but you think they do because you know they are hand knitted.
I followed an online tutorial: Silver’s sock class. It was easy and I was very pleased.

So, now I’ve overcome the sock challenge. I’m not sure when I’ll motivate myself to knit its mate; I think I would prefer to get started on something else.Where is a one-legged dryer-robbing sock-stealing alien when you need one?

I can report that it does feel different on the foot than a store bought sock (loose everywhere but at the very top of the sock/cast on)…..I think I like it…I may have figured out why a lot of knitters knit a lot of knitted socks.
The really good news is the sock was too small for TH and seemed to fit me pretty well…I’ll have to make him a sock before too long so he can test out the myth for himself.