Finished: Fidget Sock

They are finished and they are beautiful.

During my recent vacation, I brought along one of my current WIPs, the Fidget Sock. And clearly miscalculated how much knitting I could get done on a two-day drive. Miscalculated as in I finished these on the first day. Thank the Powers That Be that I brought along a second ball of yarn to cast on travel socks.

Whenever I use a sock pattern, I tend to modify it for how I want to knit the sock pattern. I have a base vanilla toe-up sock pattern that I prefer to use. I like how the toe and heel fit. And since I really only knit socks for me, that’s all that matters.

So with this pattern, oddly enough named the Fidget Sock, I really just used the repeating pattern added to my sock recipe. My biggest mistake was not paying attention to the total sets of threes on my needles. this means the beginning of the round and the end of the previous round matched. But you only notice if you look at that one side of the sock and if you’re that close to my feet, you should know better than to ask about the mistake.

It’s an easy repeat to memorize and modify. As long as you can read your knitting, you won’t need to track rounds or look at the pattern. I knit these two at a time on magic loop. And they blocked up beautifully.

Let’s talk about the real star of these socks, though: The yarn.

I don’t usually walk into my local yarn shop, point at their Instagram post and say “gimme” but I did with this yarn. I knew I was going to make socks so I wanted to find a pattern that took a beautiful yarn and gave it a little oomph. The Fidget Socks pattern did just that.

Seriously, look at these:

The yarn was a little splitty so I had to pay a little more attention to my stitches then I usually do, especially with the smaller needles. But OH! Look at those colors. I would most definitely knit with this yearn again. In fact, I wonder what a shawl would look like using a couple balls of this yarn. Hmmm…

What projects have you finished lately? Drop the pattern in the comments.