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My first socks!

17 September 2007

Knitters know what a rite of passage knitting a first pair of socks is. It may not seem like such a big deal to non-knitters, but when you pause and look at a sock, you can see there’s a great deal of shaping involved. There are certain intricacies that involve techniques (like “turning the heel”) that you just don’t do on other types of knitting.

So I’m proud to say I’ve completed my first pair of socks. They were knit with sock yarn that’s like magic. The pattern’s dyed in. So the socks might look a little more impressive than they are. Please don’t look very closely, because they’re far from perfect.

Here they are, off the foot:

My first socks, in repose.

And on my feet:

I actually like the fact they don't exactly match

Notice how the stripes match up but don’t match in color? That’s because I somehow started them at different spots on the ball of yarn (despite the fact I started a fresh ball with the second sock). But I really do kind of like that aspect of them. They’re non-comformist socks.

I have two more types of sock yarn to knit up and I’m hoping that I’ll get better at this as I go along. I haven’t actually worn my new hand-knit socks yet (it’s not yet Fair-Isle-sock-wearing weather), but I’m told that once you start wearing hand-knit socks, you don’t want to wear (or perhaps knit) anything else. We’ll see.

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