Created By Artsygal

These have to be my fastest knit ever. I cast on the first sock just after lunch on the Friday of labor day weekend and was done by Sunday night I think. Sock number 2 was cast on a couple of weeks ago, and then got pushed aside until this friday when I started putting some serious time into it. Once the heel was turned and the gusset done, the rest of the foot flew! I was done before lunch time this morning!

I knit 2 repeats of the cuff before turning the heel. Once the gusset was turned I noticed that the spiraling had stopped and I was getting the purple/blues on the top of the foot and the yellow/blue at the bottom. That wouldn't do! Simply decreasing the stockinette foot area of it by 2 stitches got the colours spiraling again. An easy fix for when colours start to pool in a way that I don't like when using a handpainted yarn.

My favorite parts of these socks though, are the very beginning and the very end.

There is something so very satisfying about a pair of perfectly kitchenered toes. Especially since I'm left handed and all the directions out there are written for right handed kitchenering. Talk about awkward. One of these days I need to figure out how to kitchener from left to right using my left hand instead.

The cuffs were done with my favorite cast on - Italian tubular. It uses no waste yarn, and unlike every other cast on I've seen does not pull in at all when done on the same size needle as the pattern calls for. Perfect for a sock cuff as it's nice and stretchy too!

I'm resisting the urge to keep these socks for myself - they fit me so perfectly! But they were knit for my roommate Randy, and she's been watching me work on them from the very beginning.. so I guess it wouldn't be nice to change my mind now would it?

Pattern:Pomatomus Socks by Cookie A.
Source: Knitty.com (the pattern is free!)
Yarn:Artsygal 100% Merino (really, were you expecting anything else?)
Needles:US 2
Started: August 29th 2008
Finished:September 28th 2008