First Sock Syndrome

 

Everyone’s heard of second sock syndrome – suffered by many who are emotionally finished after knitting just one sock of a pair. But there is an unusual variant – first sock syndrome. So many times I s-l-o-g through the initial ribbing, inch along on the leg, make it around the heel turn, and then take a long time to get to the toe. 

But something exciting happens as soon as I cast on sock #2. At that moment, the project is more than 50% completed. Even the pesky ribbing at the beginning of this sock flies by, the leg is a joy, the heel turn provides an element of mounting excitement, and the foot is the exciting sprint to the finish line (aka the toe).

Case in point: the first sock in this pair was completed about a year after it was cast on. The sock on the needles went from the point you see to finished in just two days.