#socks2018

I have finally gotten around to publishing my plain sock pattern - for free!

If you kept me company last year for my Year of Socks (or would like to look back at the #socks2018 tag) and thought that you too wanted to knit a bunch of plain, boring socks, then this may be the pattern for you!

Seriously though, plain socks do get a bit much after about 7 pairs but in moderation they’re honestly quite relaxing.

After almost a decade, I’d foolishly thought I’d stopped being sick of these colours. Unfortunately, I only realised I was wrong halfway through the foot of the second sock.

Ugh... seeing the same colour combination everywhere you look everyday for almost four years really makes you sick of it, especially when it’s this one.

I guess this doesn’t bode well for the grey and burgundy cardigan I’ve been planning, does it?

These socks have had me thinking about being a teenager a lot recently. It's not exactly been nostalgia, but... that soul-destroying teenage angst you had to deal with? Feels a lot safer now when you remember that you had people watching out for you, most of your meals provided, and at least a vague direction of where you were going. You were in school; you did school things. You studied what you were told, you took the tests you were given, and if things were hard at least there were answers, even if you didn’t know what they were.