I’ve moaned about how I dislike knitting socks…..many times. It’s really too bad that I love wearing hand knitted socks.
In fact, socks may be my favorite hand knit item to wear, period. So much so that I have looked longingly at those sock knitting machines at fiber festivals (it’s kind of not the same, is it??)
It’s a conundrum.
Enter Cookie A.
When I first joined Ravelry and saw that over 10,000 Monkey socks had been knit (now stands at 16,600 — WOW!), I was stunned. I thought — if there was a sock pattern that would transform me into a sock knitter, this has to be it! — Of course I had to join the fray. It took me a few days to knit the first sock…and then another few months to knit the other.
Then, I managed to knit another pair of her socks, BFF, in a few weeks.
I am in my second year of The Cookie A Sock Club. Last year, I knit 4 patterns out of the club. This year, I think I may try to knit all 12.
I finished the February twosome a few days after the April pattern came out. I think the trick is to have both pairs off the needles before the next installment comes out….so I’ve got the first pair of the April duo on the needles right now.
I no longer think too much about whether the second sock will get done.
WHOA.
I think she’s done it. Cookie A. has made me into a sock knitter!!!
