My First Etsy Sale! (+socks!)

I've been on Cloud 9 over the past few days - I finally made a sale in my Etsy store! I made my first sale last Thursday, and I was super excited. I sold a pair of wrist warmers :)

So every morning when I wake up the first thing I check is the status of my Etsy store - it's a bit of an obsession really! But it's become my morning ritual. Thank goodness for Windows 7 starting up so fast! When I checked on Thursday morning, I noticed one of my items were missing. And my first thought was "oh dumb-dumb Kare! You were probably editing the details for that item and forgot to "accept" the changes, so it's not showing up in your store!" But then I looked closely and realized that I made a sale! Yipee!!

And since then I've sold another pair of wrist warmers, and I have a custom order lined up. I'm so excited!

And I have been busily knitting wrist warmers since then!

But what I really want to do is get back to knitting socks. Since it has been getting colder, I finally had the opportunity to wear the socks I made earlier this year. Wearing them made me miss knitting socks. I thought I would post pics of my fancy-shmacy socks, which I knit using the magic loop method. Actually, the yellow pair is the first one I made using the magic loop method. See - I told you I like making things challenging for myself! I took the hardest pattern from Wendy Johnson's book "Socks From The Toe Up".. or what I thought was the hardest pattern to knit. The yellow ones knit up quite well :)





These red ones however, where for some reason, challenging. They were a basic lace sock, but I kept screwing up. At one point, and this was after I knit the heel and everything, I screwed up on one sock and I just couldn't fix it. I got so frustrated so I ended up taking apart the entire sock.

A word of advice: when you get frustrated, don't just go taking things apart. In quoting the movie Anchorman, right after Ron Burgundy jumped into the bear pit he said "I immediately regret this decision". That was exactly what I said (and then I thought of the movie... and I had a laugh! haha). It's better to try to fix your mistake. Taking it apart when you're almost done should be the absolute last resort. Anyway, I made it through knitting this pair and they're my second fav pair (after my lovely yellow ones)