My most recently completed socks are from the delightful patter Almondine by Ann Hanson in Ann Budd's book Sock Knitting Master Class. This is my first beyond the basic sock and I loved it! I highly recommend this book.
I used Serenity Sock Weight Yarn from the Deborah Norville Collection by Premier Yarns. The color I chose was Violas. Yes, I like purple.
Knitting socks is one of those benchmarks that serious knitters like to conquer. Granted, we all are not cut out to be sock knitters. Some of us as still in the wannabe stage, like the clerk at the store where I purchased my yarn.
I wanted to tell her to use the 9-inch circular needles. DPNs are dreadful to start with your first socks -- I know from experience! My first three pairs were done on DPNs. If only I had known about those little circs beforehand I could have saved myself a lot of angst.
Of course, my first pair was riddled with laddering as I moved from needle to needle. Second pair was a little better. Third pair, I managed to eliminate the laddering altogether. Then I discovered the 9-inch circulars at B'ewe'tiful Knits.
Back to the clerk, the wannabe a sock knitter.
Before I could relate my experience, she dropped a bombshell:
She did not know hot to knit!
Talk about ambition! She probably didn't know the difference between garter stitch and stockinette stitch!
She told me she had heard good things about knitted on a sock loom. I said that sounded like the way to go.
Can you imagine knowing nothing about knitted and attempting socks as your first project?
Can you remember your first knitting project?
