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I'm the last person who should be blogging about socks. Mind you, I've bought plenty of them, and I wear them every day (I won't wear socks with sandals, but since I won't wear sandals it's not really an issue), I launder them (or at least put them in the laundry hamper), I even inadvertently create holes in them (sometimes around the heel, but mostly around the big toe, mine's apparently especially pointy and vicious) but I don't really knit them. Oh, I try. I've knitted three so far, and by three I mean three left socks, all different patterns (or perhaps three right, or a 1-2 split, however you like to think of it). I hadn't worked my way up to doing a pair of socks yet, because, as I m