Choir Concert and the Sock

I finished the first sock!

As I was nearing the end I tried it on ~ I will spare you the pictures of my unattractive naked toes sticking out the end, through the needles. It was scary.

But the fact was, the sock was nice, and I *could* get it on, but it was stretched unhappily wide. I realized that, while I could continue knitting to make it *long* enough in the foot to fit my feet, that I would never *love* my first knit pair of socks (assuming there's ever a *pair*) ...

The pattern I used only started with 40 stitches, and my yarn, although labeled worsted weight, seems to be thinner than average, and my needles were slightly smaller than the ones listed ... and yeah, yeah, maybe I should've done a swatch for the gauge. Live and learn. Truth be told, I've never knit a swatch and aren't really sure how to measure and count or how that little doo-dad thing comes in .... I bought one, am I supposed to somehow use it?

And so, anyway, I decided to stop, make the toe decreases, and give it to Eminoodle, whose foot was more it's size.

So here is the finished sock:

And here is my covered-for-your-sake-toes inside the sock, which I could still squeeze my foot unattractively into, so you can see how it was too over-stretched even though I could get it on, so you can agree it was best to give it to Eminoodle.

Here it is on her lovely, petite foot:

What do you think of my first sock? Is it a good first sock? Does the heel turn fall in the right place, or was it supposed to not go around the corner but be AT the corner? The pattern said to make the heel flap 2.5 inches, but I wasn't sure if it was supposed to stop at the sole of the foot, or supposed to round the corner with it's reinforced stitches. But the actual "turn" of the heel comes past where both my heel and Em's heel turns.

Does my knitting look terribly uneven? I think my sock looks fairly lumpy and uneven. Maybe I don't like the fact that it's fairly fat yarn/stitches, compared to tidy store socks with tiny thread, I guess. So I can't tell if it's good.

Here is Iliacat's first non-baby sock, which looks to be a more reasonable size than mine was. Hers is 60 stitches and I think it's sock weight or baby weight yarn or something. I don't know. She started it last Thursday, isn't she amazing?

And here's one pic from the choir concert. I guess The Grand Lunar shot some video of me leading the Bible Verses part, but I didn't digitize that for you. But he did, so now it's a link to his blog, go check it out, LOL.

I must confess, I'm glad choir's done for the year. I have to decide whether I'll help again in the fall or not. I really enjoyed teaching the Bible Verse part. We did motions to help remember it, and it was fun to see all the children recite long passages (Psalm 24 and Psalm 8) with the motions. But only a little of it was *real* sign language, and I'm wondering if it would be better to do it with REAL sign language, instead of just made up motions to jog memory.

Anyway, that concludes my partial report of Sunday Afternoon And Evening.