I really enjoy knitting socks, especially for people I know appreciate the time and effort that went into creating them. No person more than Steven enjoys being the recipient of my handmade socks.
I started these socks at the beginning of December with the hopes of getting them done in time for Christmas. I got distracted making my friend mittens for Christmas (which I never did get a picture of). On Christmas Eve morning, I wrapped up the one sock I had completed, and the partially, really-barely-even-started, second sock. I gave it to Steven and told him to open right then and there. I told him I was making him the socks and he would get the second one down a lot faster if he knew he was getting it and I could knit in the open instead of trying to knit in secret. I was able to finish the second sock up this morning and I think they turned out quite wonderfully.
The sock yarn is Smooshy by Dream in Color. The colorway is called November Muse. I really liked the colorway; mainly brown with various shades of blues and greens mixed in. It struck me as a very manly and appropriate colorway for what I hoped to be manly socks.
I used size two needles, and the basic 4 needle top-down pattern from Sensational Knitted Socks, casting on 64 stitches. I didn't use a stitch pattern found within that book. I picked out a really awesome 4 stitch pattern from my stitch dictionary called Crossed Braid. It is a two round pattern:
Round 1: Slip first stitch, knit next stitch, yarn-over, pass slipped stitch over knit stitch and yarn-over, Purl 2
Round 2: Purl
Somebody is happily wearing their socks this morning.
