Remembering Toasty Socks

Day Six: Revisit a past F/O -- Bring the fortune and life of a past finished project up to the present. 

I had only been knitting for a couple of months and finished a handful of projects when I offered to knit some socks for my husband.  I wasn't using him as a guinea pig for sock knitting -- I had already made a pair of socks for myself using a semi-solid yarn and the Socks of Kindness recipe/pattern, then made another pair for myself with busier yarn in plain stockinette using the same basic construction.  But when Sariebeth gave me some sport weight yarn in blue jean colors I thought it would be perfect for more manly socks.

Now I'm fairly sure he didn't really want socks, but didn't want to say no.  I knew that with the thicker yarn he wasn't likely to wear them in shoes anyway, so they would just be there to keep his feet warm around the house.  Again, I followed the basic construction I learned for the first pair, but with ribbing on the cuff to help keep them from slouching.  They fit him pretty snugly, but they fit!

And miraculously, I even had enough yarn.  At the time I didn't have a good gauge for how much a pair of socks would take, but I managed to knit him a complete pair from 225 yards of sport weight.  Whew!

So where are they now?  On his feet!  Well, not right this instant, but they're in his usual rotation and even after well over a year they still look great!  No holes, no felting, not even any visibly worn spots.  They're never worn in shoes, so I'm sure that accounts for part of the great wear, but even being worn around the house on carpets and bare floors hasn't really caused any visible fuzzing.  (They're also in the dirty laundry so I don't have a current photo to share.)

As far as I'm concerned that's some impressive longevity for an early pair of socks, and a great durability review for Claudia Hand Painted Yarns Sport Weight.  And I'll happily claim beginner's luck.