FO: Socks, 1 year in the making!

I can finally say that I have knit a pair of socks...

and I ain't too proud to show off my mistakes.

I'd actually started these socks a whole year ago. The yarn, Cascade Fixation, came in my first ever swap on the Knittyboard. BabblingStacey was my wonderful upstream, and when she learned that I was interested in knitting socks she sent me everything I needed to make some: lots of sock yarn, Knitpicks Memories plus the Fixation, some size 3 DPNs, and the pattern for Turtlegirl's Ankle Socks.

So I'd started them, but then school started up again, and I wanted to knit other things so the socks stayed in my basket for quite some time. I was determined to finish them, so I took up the project again in June. If you go back a few posts you'll see the mess I made of decreasing the first one, and if you look at the above picture closely you'll see that the second one is a tad shorter. Also, they're a bit loose, but I think they look kinda nice.

The main thing about my first sock experience is that it hasn't scared me off of knitting socks. In fact, I'm set to start my second pair next week as a Ravelympics event. I'll be using Silver's Sock Class pattern with yarn I got at a Bobmas Eve party.

Oh, and my Therapi for Hat Attack 2 came today! The yarn feels yummy, now I get to have fun swatching! Hopefully it won't take me too long to get gauge...