Beginning of a sideways sock

Beginning of a sideways sock
Originally uploaded by sparklingscraps

I have been seeing projects that other people have been making that make the self striping yarns go sideways. I love them, but the patterns are just really confusing to me. I figured I just needed to jump in and start on one and see if I could figure it out. This is the free version available on the Knitpicks site. I can already tell that I am going to want to make modifications on this pattern, but will probably wait until I get to the second sock to do it.

9/12/07- This sock turned out awful. The pattern was written to fit a size 9 woman. Ok. So after knitting for a bit it was clear that the length that was coming out of it would never fit a size 9 foot. So I thought ok maybe it will fit my 11 year old. Kept knitting. Soon it becames clear it wouldn't fit her either. I have a seven year old so I thought maybe it would fit him. Well, this morning after supposedly getting the point where I had finished knitting all but the toe, I held it up to his foot and it barely covered the top of his foot. Obviously not going to go all around his foot and heel. Now granted I did knit with a US1 instead of the US2 suggested but that just shouldn't have made that much of a difference. The good thing that I did get from this pattern is that I learned more about this kind of construction. I think I can take what I learned here and make up my own ideas and pattern. Whew!