First Socks and introduction

Hi, My name's Anna and I've never participated in a KAL before. I live in Sydney and I have only a few simple goals for SSS.

- Knit my first pair of socks
- Knit one pair of socks a month (between October and March)
- Knit one pair of Earl Grey socks.
- Knit one sock for my keyring sockblocker.

I've managed to achieve my first goal - my first pair of socks!



They were knit top down on 2.5mm dpns. They were knit using Yarn Harlot's Plain Vanilla Sock receipe and the yarn is Raspberry tart (I think!) from either here or here. (I can't remember, my secret pal sent the yarn to me.)

The socks weren't as hard as I imagined,(why does everyone make out sock knitting is so hard?) although I was still a little confused when I turned the heel (I don't really understand how that works) and they took about 2 weeks to complete a pair. I can't wait to start another pair for myself (unfortunately, I have all this other knitting to do first).

Anna - Knit1 Purl1

First pair done!

My first pair for the SSS is done! I did start these back in January and had about an inch of ribbing finished before picking them up again this month. Yarn is Marks & Katton clown, some color number which I don't recall. I didn't make an attempt to make them stripe the same, I had no idea where I started on the yarn back in January! Sadly, as soon as they were off the needles, my 13 year old daughter snagged them, so I don't even get to wear them. :o)