Toes

Hiya from a,

I have something very exciting to show you today.  I am pleased to present my first pair of completed crocheted socks for your viewing pleasure:

Now it is a rather gloomy day here so the photo is a little overexposed so they look a lot more blue than they are.  If you look closely you can see that there is also a green swirl running through the yarn.

Now one of those weird things you hear out in the universe is that you can't crochet nice socks - I mean look above, obviously you can.  The trick is not trying to get them to look like knit socks.  Now matter knit items and crochet items look and act differently.  You need to use a great yarn and a pattern that plays to the strengths of crochet (I got this pattern from Interweave Crochet).  The yarn is also the star here.   It is by fly designs and I just fell in love with it.  For me this yarn cost a fortune - it was 18 dollars for one ball.  I was okay with this though because of a great article I read on how it is not the price as a whole that you need to look at but rather at the price per yard.  In my case the ball of yarn was something like 546 yards which means that the cost was pennies to the yard.  Plus I had more than enough yarn to make the two socks with a bunch leftover.  It is a yarn brand that I can't wait to play with again.
Anyways I really enjoyed crocheting socks, and they feel really neat on my feet (heee, rhyme) so I think it is a project that I will undertake again.
Take care.