Leather Leg

So apparently the photo I took of my mystery sock on one of my patterned glasses looks a lot like it's on someone's grossly tanned leg which is also covered in freaky bright tattoos.  Chris and the kids commented on it, plus a couple of people on the KAL forum had the same initial reaction until they realized that thank-goodness-it's-not-a-freaky-leg-just-a-colored-glass.

So you can judge for yourself, here is the original picture:

Freaky tanned & tattooed leg shot

What do you think?  Innocuous sock-on-a-glass picture or what-the-heck-is-wrong-with-that-leg???  I admit, now that it's been mentioned, I can see a grimace-inducing bad-spray-tan flowered-tattoo leg.  Or maybe I should say "stump" since there's obviously no foot attached.  That makes perfect sense.  After all, what is there better for a freaky-stump-legged person to do than sit around knitting socks?  Heck, I wouldn't even have to bother turning a heel.  Bonus!

But to avoid having people send random donations to the Freaky Leg Fund for Bad Tans & Tattoos, I've replaced the photo with a better one which also shows clue 2 finished on both socks.

Mystery Socks - Clue 2 Finished

Better?  :)

Once I finished clue 2 on my MOCKs, I went back to working on my first Rhombus sock.  I finished the gusset decreases after the heel turn, so now I just work the sock until it's long enough to start the toe.

Rhombus sock after heel turn and gusset decreases

The original plan was to knit both socks at the same time on two separate needles (as opposed to 2AAT on the same circular needle), but since I only had one size 1 circular, I could only start the first one.  I do have another needle in the right size coming in an order from Knit Picks today, but I'm so far on the first sock that I need to decide if I:

   a)  Just finish the first sock and then start on the second, or

   b)  Start the second sock, catch up to the first, then knit them in tandem until they're both done.

I'm thinking I really should go with option b in order to avoid second sock syndrome.  Even though I'm getting so close on the first sock, I know it will be hard to start the second one if I wait until the first one is finished.  So I think I'm going to suck it up and start the second one later today after the mail comes.  Then by the time I catch up, I'll be on the home stretch with both!  Yeah, that's the ticket!

Where is that mailman????