Socks are complete! 5/15/07 These have taken me the longest actual working time of any pair yet. I don't spend a lot of time knitting per day so I thought I would be working on these until next christmas. It is because they are on 0 needle. I had to needle 99 stitches per row and 92 on others to get a good fit. I didn't make them match on purpose. I wasn't sure I even liked them until I saw them on his feet. Very cool looking. Lately, he has been wearing out his socks in about 4 or 5 months. They were on size 1's so I decided to do a smaller gauge of 11 stitches. Since it feels like it took 2 times longer maybe wearing out ones socks in 4 or 5 months isn't so bad. I am re thinking my plan of 0 needles all the time. I get 9 stitches on 2.5 which are really 1-1/2 needle size. Will use larger needles for next socks. Short row toe up with short row heel.
