Handmade Monday sock it to you!

Handmade Monday is an opportunity to see what people have been making, noone said it had to be any good, so -I'd like a bit of a fanfare please, maybe a drum roll too. I would like to show you the LARGEST thing I have ever FINISHED in knitting...

Here it is, the left foot:

It is bad luck to put new shoes on the table, what about new socks?

And here is the right foot:

I'm a bit too busy at the mo, but I am aiming for completion by the end of the month.

I treated myself to a sock kit from Laughing Yaffle, followed the instructions, and hey presto, it worked!
Now I suppose I should tell you about my knitting:

• The kit comes with 5 needles, I lost one within a few hours, this must be why there are 5, because I was able to carry on knitting.
• I have never completed anything other than finger puppets (which I did design myself), and that would have been when I was 12.
• I can't knit without looking.
• I really dislike stopping mid row, because when I was about 7 I turned my knitting around and went back the wrong way and everyone laughed at me!
• When my Great Gran was going doo-lally she would put 2 or 3 heels in one sock. 

This to me is the best feature:

grafting the toe!

The instructions for grafting the toe were clearly gobbledy-gooch, they couldn't possibly work, but I thought I would give them a go before complaining ... and I was of course proved wrong, they were perfect.  Look, can you see a join on the middle 8 stitches? Neither can I, and I know which colours I joined.

My partners words of encouragement included:

• I hope you don't intend to sell these they will be the most expensive socks ever.
• When I dropped a stitch several rows earlier: what they've got a hole in them and you haven't even worn them yet?

Anyway, despite the level of laughter that will be coming from the likes of laughing yaffle and Rosmademe, I can proudly say that ONLY took me 2 weeks, just the right foot to go.