Here is my latest triumph! A pair of toddler socks. I came upon these by accident actually. I was simply going to do a small swatch to check my knitting gauge, and then I decided to see if I could do a checker pattern…which I figured out that I can.

And then I figured that since the knitting wasn’t going to be flat that it wouldn’t be a very good swatch, so why don’t I just make my way through a sock pattern for experience, making the heel, turning the heel, making the gusset, and making the decreases at the toe…and before I knew it, it was a very small sock…and I was jumping up and down, I did it!

I also have to confess that I woke up my daughter from her nap trying to get it on her foot (although I didn’t intentionally make it her size.) She loved the sock, so I had to then make another one…for the other foot.

Now, mind you, I didn’t pay attention to the number of rows I did for the first sock so the second is entirely different, which is fine. What matters is that she has two hand-knitted wool socks (that make her slip and fall down on the slick kitchen floor) and I finished my first pair of socks!

Things I learned: knitting doesn’t have to be perfect, knitting toddler sizes is much quicker than knitting adult sizes, and, wool socks are slippery. (I used this pattern, but I didn’t follow the number of stitches or the gauge for this sock.)