When my father-in-law prepared to move several years ago, he decided it was time to go through some of my mother-in-laws things that were still around. In the short time that I knew her, I learned that my mother-in-law was a funny character. For example, she claimed she wasn’t “crafty” and was really bad at both knitting or sewing, so it came as a shock to me when my father-in-law asked if I wanted to inherit her little basket of knitting supplies. At that point in time, I didn’t really knit but had thought about trying it so I accepted the offer.
At first glance it seemed the basket held only evidence of my mother-in-law self proclaimed “craft-less-ness” such as dpns with flattened points and huge bends that had obviously been used to pry something open or to jab at something that shouldn’t have been jabbed at.
At the bottom of the basket was a pattern for socks and leggings that was in Danish knitting lingo and being a novice knitting and therefore only knowing the most rudimentary knitting ligno in English, I decided to keep the pattern for now – it’s chunky, it’s funky, it’s retro… it might be fun someday.
Along with the pattern was a bit of a sock that she had been working on. I don’t remember which sock it was, but it was one from this pattern. It was actually very well knitted and unfortunately over the years and since we have moved outselves, the bits of her project I had have gone missing.
Zooming forward to present day, I found this pattern again and now being more a more experienced knitter and knowing Danish knit speak, I decided to try Sock B:
After digging through my stash, I have found some grey and multi colored yarns and I have started my first ever grown up sock:
