Mike goes through work boots like there's no tomorrow. I bought him a pair for Christmas, he already needs new ones because he's worn these out from working so much. He doesn't drive, and so when I'm not around with the car he walks everywhere which is quite a feat from our house which is isolated from any bus stop - hard to get a cab to come here too.
Okay. He wears his boots out like that -- can you imagine what his poor feet look like? Or worse yet, what they FEEL like? He gets blisters on his feet and the back of his heels as big as the palm of my hand! Ouch! Yet he keeps on working, helping anyone who needs him. So...
I am going to make him a nice, thick pair of socks for his birthday tomorrow. Hopefully I will make it to Michael's in a few minutes to get the yarn for his socks and get them stitched up today. The pattern doesn't look too hard so I think I can pull it off. My main concern is fitting them to his enormous legs. He's very muscular, especially his legs. We'll see, I'm not sure how to fit them and follow the pattern. I'll just wing it I guess and hope for the best.
Update:
It's 3:30pm and I just got back from Michael's with the yarn for these socks and for a lot of other things I plan to make. (sigh) I went in for two balls of yarn and ended up spending $100.00 (14 cents away from 100, actually). Ugh. Oh well, at least I have something to keep me busy crocheting for a while.
The two balls of yarn I got for the socks were on sale: 2 for $9. Considering these are regularly 6.99 each, it was a great bargain (if I had stuck to just getting the two balls for the socks.) They really got me when there was a sale sign on almost everything in the store!
I'll post my progress with the socks as I go along. This will be my first sock attempt, so wish me luck. I have to get them done by my boyfriend's birthday. We have a bet going . He said he won't get them till his birthday - next year. I told him they'd be done by tomorrow. (I think I'm going to loose this bet!) And then he said, okay, fifty bucks and I couldn't pass up the chance to show him I can do it. ...
Then he said, "Well, you know my birthday starts at midnight tonight!"
ACK! That gives me (counting on fingers) only 8 1/2 hours to get these stupid (now they're stupid!) socks done! ACK
The Beginning:
Here's my start. My boyfriend has huge legs - very muscular - and this pattern is for women's sizes 9-11. Oh brother. I don't think one of these would fit over his big toe! Sooooo...
I'm going to have to alter the pattern a lot. I have to measure his leg, calf, ankle, and foot (and big toe) and make adjustments in the pattern as I go along.
Like I said, this is my first attempt making socks for anyone, let alone making them for the Incredible Hunk Mike.
(That old Carpenter's song "We've Only Just Begun" keeps running through my head.) Now all I have to do is figure out where my boyfriend snuck off to so I can measure his massive legs and feet. (Don't be jealous, you've all heard about the size of a man's feet are proportionate to the rest of his body... )
ack.
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