Not so bad, really

You know, "S.O.S. - Save Our Sock!" might have been a better title yesterday than the Unclear on the Gusset title. Although that was a tribute to Mr. Boffo, my old, dear friend.

Okay, anyway, I stayed up way too late and finished the sock anyway. Despite my bloated gusset reservations.

Really, it's not so bad once it's on the foot.

Turns out, too, that Tobi-Wan and Little D have almost the same size feet.

Anyhoo, here's the sock on its intended foot:

Like the bag in the background, Becky?

Anyway, you can still see the hole, and the gusset bloat, but it's not TOO obvious, and Little D is pleased and anxiously awaiting sock #2, which of course will in no way match because that self-striping yarn doesn't actually have a repeating pattern. I think if I had just ribbed the sock, it would've been fine.

Anyway, despite declaring it "not so bad" I'll still take thoughts, suggestions, and advice to further my future sock making skills and alleviate my gusset and flap disability. Don't let the project being completed stop you from saving me.

In sort of related news ... After a weekend of taking EMinoodle out, knitting, working in the basement, and then doing n-o-t-h-i-n-g yesterday my house is understandably trashed.

But ... Little D needs another sock. One for each foot.

Isn't that reason enough for a NothingButKnit day?

**addendum** Shari reminded me that I didn't say what kind of yarn and all that stuff that good knitters remember to say. LOL.

I am using Moda Dea Sassy Stripes: "Spring" which is listed as "light" weight but seems about the same thickness as the "worsted weight" I just used. I really don't GET those weight labels. I am using size 3 (3.25 mm) wood dpns.

I'm sort of using the same pattern as I used in the other sock, which would be The Super Simple Knitwit Sock Pattern but I used 36 stitches instead of 40 (which made very little difference, really, even with the supposedly lighter weight yarn) ... I made it "preschooler" sized by shortening the leg portion and the foot portion. And I already mentioned the bad-idea-gusset modification I made LOL. I only bought one skein of this, 50 g, and I am guessing it will be just about enough for two preschooler socks. Which makes for expensive socks, when you think about it.

There are a lot of other self-striping yarns ~ the yarn I bought for *my* socks is Paton's Kroy Sock Yarn in Krazy Stripes ... it looks darker in person than in those images online.

I'm enjoying the "magic" self striping enough to consider getting some more to try out, I am thinking of trying Lion Brand Magic Stripes in Bright Spring or Jellybean -**After** I make my own socks, that is.