Socks for Maggie.

I made a pair of socks for Maggie, #2's girlfriend.

 

She and #2 came up this weekend; I finished grafting the toes on Friday evening and left them on the table when I went to bed. She found them when they got her sometime in the middle of the night, and she liked them so well she didn't take them off all weekend.

 

 

The dirty details:

Yarn: Socks That Rock™ heavyweight in Ruby Slippers, which she picked out when we were in Chicago in January.

Needles: Knit Picks Harmony US#4 circ for leg and ball of foot, Addi Turbo US#3 circ for the rest. I love the Magic Loop.

Pattern: generic top-down sock, 40 st, 2x2 ribbing on leg, slip-stitch heel, stockinette foot.

I am ashamed to say I started these w-a-y back in February. There were two reasons they took so long to finish: the tax season from hell, during which my brain was unable to handle anything more difficult than the Mason-Dixon dishcloth pattern; and once tax season was over, Maggie was 75 miles away and it was difficult to try the sock for size upon her dainty foot. Originally I started them toe-up, but when she tried them on a few weeks ago -- I was past the heel at the time, maybe even on the second sock -- she said they were fine, but #2 confided later that she told him they were a little tight through the ball of the foot. Since I wanted them to be perfect, and since STR heavyweight knits up like a flash, I frogged the sock and reknit it. Once I had the size worked out it only took me about a week, of on and off sock knitting interspersed with knitting on another project, to finish the pair. I knew by that time that I had plenty of yarn so there was no need to do toe-up; besides, I can knit a generic top-down sock without referring to a pattern. ::pats self on back::

Thus endeth the Saga of Maggie's Socks. It tickles me that she likes them so well.

Comments

[kitkatknit]

I feel for you. My a pair of socks a month that I've been dong the past couple years has gone down the drain and I am still working on my January pair. sigh

[Guinifer]

Cute Socks!

and...

Zubaz!!

[cursingmama]

Fantastic Sockies!

[deb]

How sweet!!

[Suzanne V. (Yarnhog)]

Boy, you're a nice mom! And look how well those socks match the pants.

[Chris]

Hee hee - I like how well the go with those stripey pants.

[Cindy]

I love that color! And they look so cute with the ballet slippers. Did I mention that I really, really love that color?