Sock it to me!

I finally finished Sock Number 1 this morning after two weeks (post frogging...I'm not counting the days it took me to get the cuff right). I have heard from other sock knitters that a 2mm guage is insanity, particularly for a first time sock knitter, but hey, I read the ball band and that's what it said to use. But I will use bigger guages in the future, at least, most of the time.

Actually, I'm liking the way non-knitters are looking at my socks and saying "wow, they look just like socks you buy at the store". With the tiny guage, it does look like that, and that's pretty cool.

To sum up quickly, because I'm pretty tired, the toe was a cinch...just decreases. Doing the kitchener stitch to graft the toe closed was another sock making anti-drama. I just did what it said to do in the Stitch and Bitch's Knitters handbook (including getting my environment very quiet and concentrating) and it went off without a hitch.

Here is my sock...complete with foot inserted:

I feel so darned CLEVER :)