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[melannen]

I have Knitted A Sock! It's the "basic sock" pattern out of Folk Socks. It only took five and a half years!

I am actually feeling much prouder of the accomplishment than I expected. And, unexpectedly, it even fits! My left foot is warm. Unfortunately I made it out of some strange yarn I bought at a thrift store that's no longer in business, and there's not quite enough in the same color to do a second sock (there's some almost-the-same-color of the same yarn, though.)

And I still haven't figured out the SSK decrease, but, eh, it feels fine, it just doesn't quite look right. :P

And now I don't have any unfinished knitting or crochet projects kicking around and I'm at loose ends.

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Um, knit the other sock out of the pair (even if you will have to use a slightly different yarn color)
53 (73.6%)

Start one of the 19th century patterns out of the book, to wear for cosplay, which was the original plan once you had leveled up Knitter of Socks five years ago.
14 (19.4%)

Start one of the non-sock knitting projects you've been saying you will once sock was done, like that Icelandic sweater you bought all that lopi for.
14 (19.4%)

Good now finish up all your unfinished sewing/embroidery/quilting/naalbinding/spinning/weaving/mending/electronics repair/painting projects before you start something new.
12 (16.7%)

Ticky.
23 (31.9%)

Comments

[chickiedeare]

Fraternal socks are groovy and in! Or so I am telling myself, because I just finished my second pair of socks ever and the stripes don't line up.

SSKs are overrated imo.

[felinejumper]

Congrats!!! A warm left foot, what more could one want.

[sheliak]

Knit a sock in a different but complementary color!

[peoriapeoriawhereart]

Under most circumstances, a sock requires one or more mates. Sockmates need to be of the same thickness and fiber content; avantgarde socks may vary their length and or pattern.

Man, now I'm contemplating argyle socks with lacework legs. I've only knitted one pair!

If it wasn't gardening season, I'd cast on a mobius scarf.

[kitewithfish]

I think socks are one of those things improved by repetition - you learn so much with the first pair that doing the second pair, I have found, is immensely satisfying.

I also recommend, if you think it might be for you, doing your socks two-at-a-time on magic loop - it completely removes the horrible realization that you've finished Sock #1 and now have the whole-entire-nother sock to do. D:

[peoriapeoriawhereart]

Alternatively, if you have enough of the correctly sized dps/circulars, concurrent socks with yarn chicken! But variegated yarn can only chicken if it's the same coming and going.

(I've not yarn chickened, any more than I've raced for pinks. I need to finish a UFO that was supposed to be a scarf but is acrylic. My winters are too woolen for knitted acrylic.)

[elanya]

I love knitting socks - they're great for mu bus commute too. My goal is to have enough pairs of hand knit socks to last me through a laundry cycle. I'm *almost* there, but I have a couple of pairs that need darning too.

[wyld_dandelyon]

If you have enough, add a few rows of the alternate color at the top of this sock, then knit the alternate color sock and add a few rows of this color at the top. Then they will match.

[dejadrew]

Knit the other sock out of the pair, but use a COMPLETELY different (but complimenting) sock colour. Yarn that's a SLIGHTLY different colour looks like a mistake. Yarn that's a completely different colour looks like an artistic choice!