Somehow Successfully Secret

Somehow I managed to knit socks for my husband without him knowing. It's not that I wasn't trying to be secretive about it, it's just that I didn't think I would actually get away with it!

On Valentine's Day I cast on new socks for myself, then the next day I cast on for his secret socks. I kept his socks in progress stashed in my large knitting bag and only pulled them out to work on them when he was in another room. I tried to keep an ear on where he was so that I could quickly stuff them back in the bag when I knew he was coming, but I remember at least a couple of occasions where he was in the room before I could get them tucked safely out of site. Once he was sleepy and just out of bed so I don't think he noticed what I was holding when I stuffed it back into the bag right in front of him. Then there was that time that I didn't hear him coming up the stairs in time and quickly stuffed the sock in progress, needles and all, between my back and the couch cushion. At least he didn't decide to hang out on the couch with me for a few hours or that could have been painful!

Then, finally, after 5 weeks of hiding them and working on them only when I thought I had enough time to not be stuffing them back in the bag every few minutes, I was ready to kitchener the toe. And that's when I presented them to him. Not, as you might guess, because I was impatient, but because I wasn't completely confident in my measurements and I didn't want to have to rip out any part of the toe. And, as it turns out, he wanted a few extra rows on the toe before I closed them up.

I was amazed and didn't believe him at first when he said he didn't know I was making them. He had walked in on me with them in my hands, had seen me shoving things out of sight when he came in the room, but he sticks to his claim of being surprised. He has also told me that he likes them but wouldn't tell me if he didn't. He wears them (around the house) and claims to like them and they seem to fit him well, so I'm calling them a success and I'm happy to have been able to (maybe) surprise him with something made just for him.

<3