Socks!

Yesterday I finished the brightly colored socks that I've been working on. We were at the lake, but I immediately cast on a darker, more fall-colored pair. I'm doing something brand new for me: I'm making my own pattern. So far, I cast on 64 stitches. Then I did 12 rounds of k3, p1. Now I'm doing a four row pattern:

1. k3, p1 around
2. k around
3. repeat row 1
4. p around

After doing about 6 repeats of this, it seemed like I needed to make my sock a little smaller for the ankle, so I've decreased 4 stitches on round 2 of the sixth repeat which takes me down to 60 stitches. I plan to do that again on the eighth repeat, leaving 56 stitches. I'm pretty sure I'll use that number all the way through the foot.

Pictures!

Here are some pictures from our first couple of meetings. In the
comments, tell us what you'd like to make.

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Besides my sock, I'm working on two projects: a Fairisle vest and a Gemma cardigan.

Tomorrow I'll put up some photos from our Tuesday meetings.