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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

[sheliak]

Knit a sock in a different but complementary color!

[peoriapeoriawhereart]

Seconding this as a valid option.

(Nice Jupiter, btw.)

[melannen]

Sadly not an option! This is a weird yarn that I could never match the texture on and don't have a label for (I'm not even completely sure of the fiber - it might be an odd wool blend, it might be one of the old scratchy synthetics from before they had polyester quite figured out.) The yarn I don't have enough for a second sock is red-red-blue 3ply and the only other big enough ball is red-brown-blue. So my option are either red-brown-blue or patching together multiple colors (I think there are smaller balls of brown-brown-green and brown-green-red, but not enough for a whole second sock.)