I’ve been trying to work on braiding my rug lately but I can’t do it when I have a lap cat. So this will be my lap-cat project.

Okay, I’m working on this even when I should be braiding my rug, but I can’t help it! It’s addictive! I love patterns that are so thoughtfully designed. It’s great! Slow going though, or maybe that is my arthritis. The pattern was pretty intimidating when I started, but the charts are very logical and it’s turning out quite simple. Love it. (Though I do have some questions. Should I switch back to the smaller needle at any time after the gusset? And when doing the final gusset increase, the directions say to follow all 31 sts on the chart but that includes decreases which I assume we don’t want as we actually want to increase the number of stitches. So I didn’t do the decreases and am hoping I guessed correctly.)

And I just realized I have been using the wrong size needle. My US1 is not the pattern’s US1. I should have been using my US1.5. Yikes. Hopefully it will be okay though. That plus the fact that I have a high instep, I’m switching to a US2 on the 8th round of the third chart repeat of the gusset. Fingers crossed the wrong needle thing won’t mess things up too badly. (I tried it in and it fits my narrow foot fine, but length is where I’m really concerned as I was getting 8sts per inch but 11 rounds per inch.)… Yes, fits perfectly. Yay for narrow feet!

I decided not to change the pattern on the back of the sock on round 23. Also, after 10 repeats I had hordes of yarn left, plus I like longer socks. So 20 total repeats of rnd 23 before doing rnd 24. 18 rnds of 24 because I read directions for the wrong side. Tubular bind off.

I’m not sure how I used so little yarn. Regardless, these socks are awesome and I loved making them. Next up: the same socks for the husband so he won’t try to steal mine!