A Sock Tale

A couple of years ago on our anniversary I started a pair of anniversary socks. We were on a lovely trip to the Oregon coast and it seem like a good time to start a special project, so I did. I cast on Nancy Bush's Anniversary Socks from  This was the year I would finally knit them. 

You see I knit a lot of plain socks because... I enjoy knitting them. I have knit enough that I just to round and round and round, you know how the world is supposed to be going?

Every once in a while I think that I should finally knit some special fancy socks. You know from one of the many sock knitting books that I own. But there's the rub, you have to pay attention to fancy socks. Nonetheless I cast on to mark our anniversary.

Lovely right?

I had trouble memorizing the pattern till I figured out that I need to rewrite patterns for myself. It is almost like winding up the yarn you're going to use, it is part of the getting to know you process of a project. Once I did that boom zip I had a sock and the start to another one. Mind you it took me a year to figure this out. A year of this special project staying in my mind and on my needles just not being active with either. 

But then I got suspicious, and received confirmation. I ran out of this fantastic red yarn. Then I broke myself and I let it sit. 

But hey I have the same yarn in this nice blue color. Red and blue go together, and even if they don't I don't care I like special socks remember?

I thought about just adding the blue and going plain just to be fast and finish it up. But that's how you get Frankensocks so I stayed fancy. 

I think Burt approves.

Happy anniversary hubby these socks are for me.