One down already! Okay, now, for me, this is super fast knitting - you've gotta be proud of me! A whole sock finished in less than a week? Woo hoo!
I'm just starting sock #2, which I imagine will be finished by next weekend, and then I will once again return to The Cardi. Or, I might cast on the blanket and hat I've been meaning to knit for Liam, since he shows signs of arriving at any moment. (Don't get too excited - my kids seem to enjoy toying with my brain. They've all done this - they get everything started early, and then we play the contraction game for a month or so, until the poor Doctor finally gives in and induces me just to get it all over with. I still have 6 weeks until the Big Due Date, so I'm sure I'll be sitting here 6 weeks from now, feeling just a tad bit cranky.)
I had my sister over yesterday for a visit, and she totally fell in love with the sock. I was just knitting up the toe and grafting while we chatted, so I had her try it on, and it is of course a perfect fit. You know what this means, right? I'll be buying some different yarn from Ruth for special socks for myself, because these babies are going away for my sister's next birthday. (She also made me brownies while she was here, which in my mind totally earns her a pair of socks.) Ah, well, I kind of had a feeling it was too good to be true. The socks I knit are almost always destined for someone else's feet!
wow, they look great! I'd have snagged them too!
Posted by: Colleen | April 24, 2008 at 03:15 PM
Awww. but how sweet, she baked you brownies... YUM.
That's always happening to me too... but right now I'm on a second sock and seriously, I just keep telling myself... they're mine, they're mine... we'll see how it plays out in the end.
Posted by: marianne | April 24, 2008 at 04:01 PM
That's really fast. I love pretty colours on socks, it makes you want to keep knitting just to see the colours grow on the sock :)
Posted by: erin | April 24, 2008 at 06:23 PM
I hear you Charity - the socks I knit almost always end up on someone else's feet too!
Hang in there. I like your "Don't get all excited" attitude.
Posted by: Gina | April 24, 2008 at 06:47 PM
Ooo, those are nice socks! I can see why she fell in love with them.
Posted by: Jennifer | April 24, 2008 at 07:11 PM
Nice timing from your sister :o) Make sure the next pair are actually for you!
Posted by: Sarah | April 24, 2008 at 11:06 PM
What cool color pooling around the ankle. Cute and fast - what more could a knitter want? Good luck with the contractions. Nothing else quite reminds you how little control you have over things, does it? Happy knitting!
Posted by: Anne Margaret | April 25, 2008 at 04:48 AM
You, too, huh? I have yet to make a pair that haven't been "claimed" by someone else *sigh*
Posted by: meg | April 25, 2008 at 01:27 PM
What a beautiful sock! I guess if she made you brownies, your sister deserves the socks. Next pair for you!
Posted by: Julie | April 26, 2008 at 04:30 AM
Brownies? Yeah, definitely worth giving socks for!
Posted by: Pam | April 26, 2008 at 12:40 PM
Brownies? Yeah, definitely worth giving socks for!
Posted by: Pam | April 26, 2008 at 12:41 PM
I've been thinking of you lately. Oh, and I hear you on the socks - almost everything I knit ends up in someone else's wardrobe! :)
Posted by: Nora | April 27, 2008 at 03:01 AM
Ah, but sisters are totally worth it!!!
Posted by: Maria | April 27, 2008 at 04:46 PM
that is what happens to the socks that i knit as well. i rarely keep them!
Posted by: marti | April 28, 2008 at 11:49 AM
You too? Maybe we should take up knitting socks in the dark so no one knows to claim them.
All those contractions should help in the long run. :-)
Posted by: Fiberjoy | April 30, 2008 at 09:21 PM