Knit my first project from Knit Your Socks on Straight and went with her worsted-weight pattern, called very succinctly Your First Socks. Interesting technique and it works out well. I went with the recommended yarn for once and used Patons Classic Wool, but that was mainly a coincidence because I had a skein sitting by from my Stone Walls vest. The pattern itself is pretty intuitive, and it’s a quick and easy knit. These are 100 non-superwash wool, which for me isn’t ideal in a pair of socks, due both to my hard-working feet and ‘just toss it in’ method of laundry, but I’ll do my best to keep these from felting. I’m good with not felting wool sweaters, but socks get stuck in pant legs and end up mixed in with the wrong laundry loads…
I want to try one of her patterns in an actual sock yarn, but I’m running into the issue of not being able to find straight needles smaller than a 0 that aren’t double points or circulars. Of course, I can adapt the technique in the book to be knit with circulars but that rather defeats the point. The book has really cute patterns knit in traditional sock yarn with smaller needles, but I have such a massive gauge that I would probably need straight needles that were a size 00 or smaller, and that seems to be impossible to find. I’ll see what I can dig up.