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I have finished another knitting project!!!
This probably won’t surprise you, but I went for my favorite type of pattern…SOCKS!
This pattern is BFF, by Cookie A. Yes, I am predictable, am I not?
The pattern can be found in her book Knit. Sock. Love.
For this pattern, I selected a skein of yarn I purchased in Seattle during my cruise to Alaska two years ago (props to the in-laws for funding that trip!).
The yarn is Happy Feet (total of 80 grams), and it was a joy to knit, frog, and re-knit with.
😀
I cast on June 2nd and plugged along just wonderfully…
…Until I turned the heel and tried on the first sock.
Ugh.
Too big!
Rats. The sock was ridiculously big, so I frogged (ripped up the entire thing)…
I cast on again, going down to a size 0 needle. I also switched from the Small sock to the XS. There’s a cable in this pattern, and cables tend to stretch.
With those changes made, I began knitting again and knit the entire leg in one day. I was on a mission to get this pair finished!
You can see that the fit was much, much better the second time around!
It wasn’t long before I was working the foot.
I love the evenness of the stitches!
It wasn’t long before I was casting on Sock #2.
I got a big head, though, and had to frog this sock after I finished the leg section. Right before I began working on the heel flap, I discovered that I’d been doing the cable pattern on the wrong round! Ugh!!
I got back in the groove, paid very close attention to every detail in the pattern, put on a movie (Snow White and the Swordsman…great movie!!), and finished the sock around 2am Tuesday morning…
Here are the photos of the finished pair! Please forgive the lighting. I have discovered that the afternoon light is the best when photographing my knitted items. I got antsy and couldn’t wait!
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