Knitting Socks

Recently, I've been experiencing an intense craving to knit socks. I usually spend my lunch break surfing the web, and a couple of weeks ago I found myself at Silver's Sock Class. A while back I bought some cheap sock yarn and size 2 double pointed needles. I never got to trying out socks partly because I had other projects lined up, and partly because I wasn't as "learned" about knitting back then. Anyway, I now want to knit socks. Lots of them. I even picked out some sock yarn from KnitPicks and put it on my Christmas list. Whether or not I get the yarn is a different story. I've never actually knit in the round before, but it can't be too hard, right? I have a hat (more like ski mask) pattern picked out to make Kai for his birthday, so I'm going to use that to practice knitting on double pointed needles. That pattern calls for size 7 and 8 double pointed needles, which are probably easier to learn on than size 2.

I wish I could knit on the train. Socks would be nice for train knitting. Unfortunately, I get car sick (train sick?) on the train if I don't face forward and stare out the front. I have a 30 minute commute to work, which gets INCREDIBLY boring. An mp3 player would help. In fact, I bought one just for the train, but I had to return it due to defectiveness. It took 13 hours to charge, and it would only play for an hour before it needed to be charged again! This is so going off topic...

As it stands now, I probably won't be able to attempt socks until all of the Christmas projects are done, the baby sweater is complete, and I've made a decent amount of items to put in my Etsy shop. I guesstimate February or March-ish. Ugh. Too long. I'm so impatient!