I completed a PAIR of socks.
Yes I actually said "PAIR"!! Now to most people that does not seem like a major accomplishment to go shouting about, but for myself it is. To date I have 6 single socks completed or near completion so finishing a second one is huge. If you do not know about my Single Sock Syndrome please refer to blog post Monday Aug 29. Sock!! (I even linked it for you.) Monday I started a pair of socks with my class, which is going quite well. I worked on them the last 3 nights and I finished them! I decided to try to do them two at a time. In crochet it is a little different then in knitting. In knitting you have both on the needles at the same time and work them simultaneously, in crochet you only have one live stitch at a time, working from the inside and outside of the ball of yarn and I worked each section at a time. I did the cuffs of one put it on a holder then did the cuff of the second, then moved back to the first one for the next section until they were complete. I think it went pretty well. The yarn got a little wound up but nothing too terrible. If you notice, I even almost matched the stripes. OK, so those of you that know about self striping yarn know I did nothing to make it happen, it is just the magic of the yarn, but it certainly looks really impressive! You could have knocked DH over with a feather when I showed him both of them. His first words were "I know what tomorrows blog post will be about!" YEP, he was right.
For those of you interested in knowing the pattern I used was out of Karen Whooley's book, I can't believe I am crocheting socks, published by Leisure Arts. It is the basic cuff down sock.
