7 May
Finished knitting last night, and the socks are now blocked, dry and on my feet as I type!

They came out slightly too big, but they are super comfortable and will be great for padding around the house on cold nights, if not so suitable for fitting into shoes. The yarn softened and bloomed beautifully.

Three quibbles:
1) The diagonal bands are nowhere near even. This pattern uses the Hungry Stitch technique to tighten up the ssks so they look closer to k2togs, but even though I tried to go as loosey-goosey as possible it was a bit too hungry and the sock with the ssks has a noticeably narrower band.

2) The diagonal ribbing looks cute, but doesn’t bring in the top of the sock the way normal ribbing would, so it’s got a rather sloppy cuff.

3) The socks are different colours! One is much greyer than the other. I assume this must be from my two skeins (same dye lot), though it’s hard to tell since some of the yarn was previously knit and frogged. I was working from about six small balls, and not sure which ones came from which skein.

However, despite all that, I’m still going to wear the dickens out of these socks, I think they came out well for a first finished attempt - and I’m looking forward to knitting my next pair.

LOVE the Sweet Tomato Heel, by the way. So easy to knit, and it fits really well.

5 May
About halfway through sock #2. Still don’t like the wooden needles, but I’m persevering!

I made a shorter-than-usual-sock length (5” to the top of the heel) as that’s the height I always fold my commercial socks down to. The first one took 40g of yarn.

30 April
Cast on this morning. I’m trying knitting on wooden needles for the first time (magic looping with a Knit Pro fixed circular) since my metal set seems to be irritating my skin. So far it feels like chalk on a blackboard, but I’ll keep going in case it’s easier once I’m past the toe.

This yarn is a beautiful dark blue with some lighter flashes, and together with the swirly Coriolis pattern it reminds me of a galaxy.