Socks are my nemesis, hats are my true love.

Sock knitting is the craze in the knitting world now. Every knitter out there does it, blogs about and post pictures of them wearing their newly created sock in some beautiful location. You see big separate sections in the yarn store, solely devoted for sock yarn. Yes, it is indeed the fad of the knitting world and I have yet to fall in love with knitting socks.

When I completed my first scarf, I naturally wanted to do more. Not only did this provide me with a reason to go shopping for more yarn but it was the next great project. I wanted to make something nice and special for my husband, just for him. He said socks. A nice pair of dress socks for work, he said. So I rushed out to find the perfect needles, sock yarn and settled in learning how to knit socks. After starting, then undoing, then starting over, then undoing again (repeat 10 more times), I finally sought out some help. Carey had gotten the sock bug and just took to it. She's knitted several beautiful pairs of socks and has blogged (gotaspinningwheel.blogspot.com) about it with lovely photos of her creations in different locations. She helped me get started and once again I found myself in the start, undo, start over, undo pattern again. Maybe it was the yarn or the needles, I decided to buy more different types of sock yarn and needles. Again, start, undo....well you know the rest. By the third round of trying to knit a pair of socks for James it was getting close to winter and I said to myself "Bailey needs a hat". So I knitted a hat. Then another hat and another hat. My child only has one head but 4 hats to pick from now, with more on the way. Then I made a hat for Carey, one for my mother, one for Carey's mom and then another hat Carey. I found my knitting bug and although it's not the fad of the knitting world right now, I really enjoy making hats. They are just plain fun to make and although I have gone on to making other knitted items for people, I keep coming back to making hats. I did make something special for James earlier this year, I completed "The Boy Hat" pattern by Elizabeth Heath-Heckman just in time for winter that he wears all the time and now he has at least one handmade item from me.

So it's been 2 1/2 years since I learned to knit and I'm still working on a pair of socks for James. I recently came across a small pair of circular needles just for sock making and I'm at it again. I'm keeping the sock-in-progress located in the car in order to actually work on it once in a while (yes, James I know that's a cup holder but it also works for holding your sock-in-progress as well) on my daily carpooling to work.
No more excuses, I will finish the socks, although I did see a need for my dad to have a warm hat to wear outside now that it's winter.