Socks rock!!

I've mastered purses, hats, baby sweaters, slippers, etc etc. I knew it was time to move onto something new. I drooled over pretty sock patterns online. I fingered the soft wool I have in my yarn stash and imagined the wool knitted into comfy socks. I checked sock pattern books out of the library and paged through them. My only problem was that I had an unatural fear of double pointed needles. I was visions (nightmares) of stabbing myself in the eye while trying to transfer stitches. I was just plain scared of them.

Now, I know that fear is not a good thing. The only reasonable things people should be afraid of are lions and perhaps a really bad perm. But knitting needles (even if they are super pointy) should not be feared.

So I gathered up my courage and ordered several pair of double pointed needles from www.joann.com last week. I stalked the UPS site to watch their progress across the country. I leapt on them when they arrived on my front porch.

I sat in front of my computer last Wednesday night and knew it was time. Time to knit my first sock!!! I decided to use the Come to silver Sock knitting Tutorial I had found! http://www.cometosilver.com/socks/SockClass_Beginning.htm I watched a few online tutorials on knitting with DPN's to gain confidence. And I was off!!

After jabbing myself in the hand a couple of times while getting used to the needles a strange thing started to happen. I saw something! Was it a bird? A Plane? No! It was a sock cuff! Emerging right out of my needles!!! I was truly amazed, inspired and addicted!!!

I have now finished the first sock and have started on the second. I will gift these to my sister-in-law for Christmas this Saturday. I know she'll appreciate these super comfy wool socks!

I'm totally addicted to knitting socks now! I've ordered several skeins of Paton's Kroy sock yarn and I can't wait for them to get here! Why did I wait so long to knit socks?? They're fantastic!!