Socks DONE!

My first pair of socks ever. It's 65% wool 35% silk. And they feeeeeeel gooood.

It took me a while to figure out the gusset and the decrease from the heel, but after the third try and looking between two Web sites and Knitting with Balls I figured it out.

I finished the first, knitting down to 16 stitches and kitchener stitched off. The directions said to knit down to four stitches but I thought that would end kind of pointy.

On the second sock I did knit down to four and it did end kind of pointy.

Based on the stitches per inch, my magic number was 10 so my first sock started out 70 stitches in the round (stockinette) - but after I turned the heel it was looking HUGE, so I frogged it and went down to 60 stitches and did a knit perl rib on the cuff. It fits wonderfully.

My interim project is another pair of socks - thicker - 100% wool. I'm sticking with the 60 stitches and doing a K4P2 rib. We'll see where it goes.

I say interim because I have my eye on a ribbed, zip up hoodie project in Knitting With Balls.

I'm going to do it in a DARK blue tweed-like wool that has little furballs of a royal blue in it.

Right now I'm looking over the directions and groaning over the time it'll take me to get any length out of my size 5 needles. (My last sweater was size 7 needles and I swore my next would be CHUNKY.) Oh well. I don't have the dough for any more yarn so I'll work with what I have in stash. (Which, bittersweetly, is quite low.)