Sock it to me!

I have, for several years now, been wanting to knit up some socks.

I started some, again several years ago, but didn't get beyond finishing the first one.

However, a spark ignited when I saw that Louise from Louise Tillbrook Designs was going to run a Sock Knit-A-Long using a new pattern of hers named Precious Metals.  Where this little spark of determination came from I cannot tell you, but I was GOING to knit these socks!

I chose my yarn.  Not a particularly good choice as it would have been better to have been one colour or just tonal rather than varigated.  However, I chose this yarn as it was already in two 50g skeins (Sprightly Sock Yarn from Devon Sun Yarns  - I forget the colourway name) and I had decided to knit the socks two at a time!  

Eeek!  

Mad, I know.  

There was, however, method in my madness as I decided that if I knitted them at the same time then I wouldn't get to the same stage I had with my previous sock attempt and not finish even one.  I also figured that if I learnt this way - then it would be a cinch next time I knitted socks!  And if I didn't like it, at least I would have one finished pair of socks!

So I religiously stuck to printing out the clues each week and religiously ploughed knitted through them ...

Posting photos regularly on instagram so that it would give me the incentive, the encouragement, whatever to keep on knitting!  I thought perhaps if I announced to the World (or at least my little part of it) that I was knitting these socks ... then I would just HAVE to finish them!

And what do you know?!  I finished them!

Not a brilliantly smooth finish with bagginess in places ... 

but I had FINISHED MY FIRST PAIR OF SOCKS!

And I am so pleased with myself!  This was such a huge accomplishment in my (knitting) book!

I managed to knit mini cables and follow the pattern (ticking off each row as I knitted them (twice - once on each sock!) and knitted two heels!  

Now ... to find another sock pattern ....  sometime soon ....

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