Well they only took me 5 years...

[babs_bee]

but I finally finished my first pair of toe-up socks. Now, to be honest, there is no real reason it should have taken me 5 years to knit a pair of socks. Heck, I knit 15 shawls alone in 2012. But alas, I suffer from the dreaded SSS--Second Sock Syndrome and after I finished the first sock in 2007 (yes, folks, 2007), I started the second with all good intentions and then got distracted by ooooohhhh...new patterns....new stuff to knit....new shinies....and somewhere along the line, they got pushed in their little plastic baggy down down down into the depths of an old knitting bag filled with scraps. In a search for something else, I found the forlorn socks, just waiting to be finished (and also patiently waiting to be freed from their prison--the 2 size 0 addi turbo needles that I really really need for some other socks I want to make). Surprisingly I only had about 2 inches of cuff to go to finish them and woohoo--success tonight. Finally done.

Here's a link to them.  And psst--the best thing? They fit me perfectly.

The 5 year Toe-Up Socks