The Great Houdini - a photojourney

The father's day socks I've been working on for quite some time (i started a pattern, got to the heel, and discovered that -I- couldn't get it on my girl foot, so it got frogged, i got frustrated, and it was ignored), has been finished. I attempted the Houdini pattern by Cat Bordhi. The construction was curious...you completely knit the foot from toe to heel (for me they were the same) and close it off. So you have this footprint that you couldn't get your foot into. Then you pick an end, and pick up stitches.

Then you bravely snip the middle stitch in the row between the two needles and start unweaving, leaving the last two stitches on either end of both needles still 'knit'.

And then you knit a leg, starting at the middle back of the heel (which is something i never do, my rounds always start on one side, so that was new, i think i like it though).

and TADA

a whole sock. I can't tell, as they are made for man feet, how they fit or if the heel will be funny (note to self, use the cast on toe for the heel), but they are house socks for chilly mornings. Just in time for the weather change. I'll be trying Houdini again for myself, and will report on the fit/feel at that time. Definitely an interesting method.