Socks FTW!

That's right... I knitted socks! My very first pair. I'm totally enamored of (with?) sock knitting now. I used #3 DPNs, TLC Baby in Bunny Print, and Silver's Sock Class rather than a real pattern. The only thing I changed was the leg ribbing... I don't like ribbing all the way down the leg (and I hate purling besides) so I did a bit more than an inch and switched to just knitting the rest of the leg. In all this project took me about 5 weeks, but that's coz I put it down for nearly a month in between. I got sock 1 done in 5 days (with surgery in there somewhere) and cast on right away and got nearly done with sock 2 in another 2 days, but then set it down until 2 days ago, so if you scrunch the time together, it took about 11 days. Not bad for first socks!

Things I learned on this project:
-DPNs aren't scary! Really! You feel like you're going to poke your eye out for the first 3 or 4 rounds and then it just makes sense. I love them!
-I looooove turning heels. It's some kind of crazy voodoo. So awesome.
-Picking up stitches is kind of cool and not hard at all. I expected far worse.
-Kitchener stitch is not that bad either!

A short pictorial telling of the first part of Beowulf.

Grendel, vile descendant of Cain, ravages the Danish countryside.
Exhibit A- vile countenance. Look at the evil in those beady (buttony?) eyes.

The hero, Sanji- I mean Beowulf, comes to battle with him, bare-handed! Will he triumph?!
Beowulf rips Grendel's arm clean off (ah, the power of velcro) and Grendel runs away like a little baby. Later his mom comes and tries to tell Beowulf off for killing her son, but Beowulf kills her too. What a jerk.
But later, Beowulf gives Grendel his arm back and they become the best of friends. (This doesn't happen.)
The End.

Grendel is made of socks, polyfill, buttons, and a bit of velcro. He's for an English assignment.

...best english assignment EVER.