So, after knitting the first gray sock for my dad (and test knitting the pattern for Hunter Hammersen), I wasn’t sure if it would fit and I couldn’t have TH try it on because his feet are larger than my dad’s. Now, you can’t just ask any random guy to try on a sock cause that could lead to some awkward conversations and if you’re at work a possible trip to HR. So, I polled a couple of my closest friends at work and one of them was nice enough to volunteer her husband to try on a sock for me…..and he was a very good sport about the whole thing, even let her take photos so I could blog about it!
I imagine the exchange went something like this:
“What is this?”
“a sock. Can you please try it on? Katie needs to see if it will fit her dad.”

“You want me to do what?”
“Try it on.”


“I hope her dad is agile.” (which was nice code for the fact that the sock was tight).


I thought that the sock looked like it fit well and wool socks stretch a bit, so I decided to block the daylights out of it and move along to sock number 2.

Thank you, M & M, ya’ll are good sports and I appreciate your willingness to humor me!! :-)

Ps. Merry Serbian Christmas (and day after Epiphany)!

Tonight I finished my first foray into sample knitting. I tried a couple of different yarns for the Senneh’s and was not pleased, so I was happy to have Hunter send me yarn and assign me the Senneh sock (after I volunteered to do sample knitting). The first yarn was too thin (Schaeffer Anne) and the second was too dark (Black Magic Woman). The third was just right…observe.

My sock took 1.5 oz. of Prism Merino Mia wool in Mocha. I must admit that I was more than half expecting orange when I opened the yarn package cause Hunter likes orange, but I like some chocolate colored yarn and have not yet knit brown semi-solid socks, so happy happy!…and my favorite socks that fit my feet so far were Prism yarn (the Froot Loops) so I was excited to use it again (positive associations don’tcha know).

On the yang side of things, this pattern had negative associations from all the false starts when I began it, but by the end of the first pattern repeat, it was growing on me. I learned to read the chart without having to look up definitions (three starts comes in handy) and cable without a needle proficiently. The word proficiently is important because I was doing it clumsily before, but now, I feel like I can do it and not sweat/be mentally reaching for my tiny crochet hook at the same time. By George, by the time I got to the end, I sure was pleased with the result. As usual, another nice pattern from the Silk Road Socks book. And if I’m being perfectly honest, the way this sock turns out with the pattern going down and across the foot felt a little like magic even as I was knitting it. Perhaps I’ll hunt down some “magic” yarn after all and knit myself a pair.

Ps. When the blog titles are longer and less vague I get less spam comments, so please pardon me if over time, my titles become increasingly lengthy and specific.
Pps. Hunter, if you’re reading this, I totally washed and carefully dried my foot before taking pics. :)

Here are the watermelon socks on mom’s feet on Christmas day. I finished them at 11:41pm Christmas Eve while she was asleep in the guest room. sneaky sneaky! I didn’t weave in the ends on the afterthought heel just in case and it turns out I need to rip out a couple of rows as they are just a smidge too big. She really liked them, so I’m excited!

Ps. Happy New Year, World! 2012 is gonna rock! :)