While at the Highlights Foundation Writers Conference last month, I met a lady named MJ who purposefully and successfully wears mismatched socks. She has some fabulous socks, too. And MJ unwittingly solved a problem for many knitters—the second sock syndrome, where you finish one sock of a pair, and then you don’t really feel like knitting the other one. I think it’s a been there/done that sort of thing.
Eva wore mismatched socks on purpose through about fourth grade, when she quit wearing socks pretty much altogether, much to our consternation. When she saw me working on this little seamless argyle number with Fun Fur cross-hatches, she said, “Mom, can I wear those when you’re through with them?”
“What do you mean, ‘them?'” I said, more or less. “There’s only going to be one, because this is a sample for my seamless argyle class.”
So if she ever wants to wear it, she’ll have to go back to her old ways, the MJ way, and wear it with the other sample sock I’m making in greens and yellow, with orange cross-hatches.
The great thing about knitting these samples is that I think I have made an improvement on my original seamless argyle sock. Hurrah! If you signed up for my Seamless Argyle workshop at Stitches East, you’ll be the first to knit the new, improved seamless argyle.