This is the current sock in progress.
I was going to call this pair my beach socks because the colors remind me of a shoreline, but they have become the neverending socks instead. I began this pair no less than a year ago. I gave my mother socks for her birthday, which was April 7th, and then began these. Now, a year might not be so bad – if this was the second sock. Which it is not. Granted, the socks don’t get much prime knitting time. I primarily work on these at work on break and when I’m waiting for an appointment. I worked on them in the time before my last two exams. It felt pretty pathetic to be at the same place on the same sock six months apart.
To be fair, this iteration of the sock is its fourth. I “designed” the pattern myself. I always begin with Wendy’s generic toe-up pattern. I made up a pattern for the foot and leg and away I went. I was aiming for something beachy. I don’t even remember what I started with, but I know that part way through the foot I decided I didn’t like it. I LOVE this yarn, so I had to do better. So I came up with columns of stockinette with columns of seed stitch. The seed stitch reminds me of pebbles on a beach, and the “v’s” formed by the stockinette are like waves. I then spent an inordinate amount of time coming up with a way to carry the pattern into the toe. Again, part way through the foot, I decided that continuing what was essentially a rib stitch into the toe looked stupid. So I ripped. And I cast on again with a plain toe. Christmas day I was binding off that sock, and I tried it on. Suddenly I realized it was too big. I had tried it on, oh, about 8,000 times already and had not noticed. The sock needed to be stretched out to see the seed stitch (not to mention fit appropriately) and there was not a whole lot of stretch action going on. So, much to my family’s chagrin, I ripped the whole thing. And redid everything with fewer stitches around. The picture above is how far I’ve gotten. The sock is now an “at-home” project too, because I just can’t work up the energy for the PoS Bridal Cardigan.
Wow! You sure can say alot about a sock!
