First Pair of Socks

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Once I started knitting, I think I was the most excited to start my first pair of socks. They’re a quick project, they seemed relatively easy, and I needed new socks! Since I received a wonderfully generous wedding gift from a LibriVox friend named Betsie of all the materials I needed to create a pair of socks for me and my husband, I decided that was the perfect time to start!

The pattern was relatively easy, and I only made one real mistake. I somehow switched my knitting around so that the foot part shows the wrong side of the stockinette stitch, but it doesn’t look overly bad. The only part that I really had a problem with was the grafting at the toe. I don’t think it looks like it’s supposed to, but it stays closed and keeps the stitches from unravelling. I guess that’s the important part.

What have I learned?

Read complicated patterns very carefully. I know I’ve already learned this, but sometimes things need to really be driven home. Now that I’ve completed two of the socks, I know how the stockinette ended up backwards. I missed a row in the pattern.

Socks are really easy, and very flexible things to knit. I can knit along, try the sock to see if it fits, and adjust as I go if needed. I was thinking as I knitted of all the possibilities and changes I could make, without a whole lot of fuss.

Somehow I need to do something different with the heal, because there is a loose row on either side. It’s not blatantly visible, and it doesn’t look terrible, but it’s something that would bother me.

Grafting is possible by following great tutorials such as this