I don't know what I've been doing with my time, but there sure hasn't been a lot of knitting going on. It took me just shy of two months to finish these socks! It's true that I whipped out two insanely cute baby hats as well, but still - it felt like I was working on those socks for an eternity. I think part of the problem was that the heel was interesting, but the rest was just plain knitting, round after round after round. It was my first time using self-striping yarn, and it was cool, but in the end I think I'm going to stick to mostly doing patterns.
They're ankle-down, use a very interesting heel which I talked about a bit waaaay back when I started this project. I finished the toes with Kitchener, and is it just me, or does everyone have a weird little lump at one end of that style of bind-off? you can kind of see it on the left side of the foot in the left of the picture.
To sum up: the heel turn/gusset business really was awesome. The directions were great. I look forward to doing the full-blown version of that pattern, called Sleepy Hollow.
The yarn was fine to work with, and I DID like that the socks became a pattern all because of the yarn changing colors at regular intervals. One sock is slightly longer than the other, because I wanted to start the heel turn at approximately the same spot in the color pattern, to make sure the stripes lined up pretty well. I think I hit that really closely!
It was also a first doing Magic Looping - I did most of the first sock on one 40-inch needle. At some point I switched to two needles, and liked that best of all. I think if I decide to do more Loop work, I'm going to buy matching-length dpns. In this case I was using one that was 16 inches and one that was 40 inches, and the superfluous cord was annoying.
I don't really have a burning urge to knit anything in particular, but I do have some pretty springy yarn, so maybe I'll just cast on some different socks! It wouldn't do to be NOT knitting, you know.
pretty! and yay for finishing! it always takes me at least 2 months to get anything done (maybe because i'm always working on a zillion different things?). i hear ya on the plain, boring stockinette. a pretty yarn does NOT an interesting knit make. i think i had that funny bump with my kitchener, but since it was my first pair i'm no expert. but i did kind of pull it inside the sock when i wove in the ends and made it disappear.
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