Sun 15 Jun 2008
The bigger little sock was still too small. By about 2.5 inches. I couldn’t believe it. This is more than inelastic yarn; this has to be big feet, too.
Fortunately, I had decided to make these my first-ever cuff down socks, so it was easy to pull back the toe and add a few inches. I also finished the second sock, so the little socks are now finished.
And they aren’t so little. My feet are size 10, and you can see that the socks aren’t all that much shorter than my feet. In fact, I can put them on and they’re only 2 or 3 inches short of fitting me. The recipient is six. I remember that my feet started to get bigger than some adults’ when I was 10 or 11, but six?
They will be tried on again tomorrow, and hopefully they’ll actually fit this time! Third time’s a charm, right?
Those look about right for a six-year-old to me. I expect my (now) seven-year-old's socks to "fit" me with some serious stretching, and I'm a size 6.5 or so, so…
3rd time is definitely the charm. that's how many times I had to rip out my last sock to get it right. Yours look great!
And hang in there through the race of grad school. The most stressful month of the entire time for me was the last one – I'd come so far and could see the finish line, and the fear of the grad school equivalent of a pulled hamstring was huge. But I made it, and you will, too.