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Achievement unlocked!
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.
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)
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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.
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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.
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Good now finish up all your unfinished sewing/embroidery/quilting/naalbinding/spinning/weaving/mending/electronics repair/painting projects before you start something new.
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Ticky.
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..having actually googled it, magic loop appears to be a way to pretend you are using DPNs with a circular needle, except with only three needles, which is too few DPNs. (I definitely had laddering issues the time I tried to do a whole cuff with only three DPNs because I had lost the other three.) So unless you're super-afraid of your needles falling out (which I've only had as a problem on metal dpns, never plastic, wood, or bamboo) it should not be too different, except that the cast-on always seems harder.