I had been wracking my brains about what to make for a teacher present for Gus's teacher, Sandy. We all adored her this year, but I wasn't quite sure what was a good gift. I wanted to get her a Barnes and Noble gift card. I was thinking I'd knit her a bookmark to go with the giftcard. How hard could that be? A little lace panel, a little cable panel perhaps?
Well! I pulled out all of Barbara Walker and all of the Harmony Guides and tried 16 million different stitches. 16 million, I tell you!! And NONE of them worked! None looked right. I was getting so frustrated.
And then a miracle occurred! Sandy is a devout Red Sox fan.....why not make her a bookmark of...... red socks!!! Ta-da!!!

(that's a quarter for scale)
I started with a toe-up sock, bound off all but 2 stitches at the cuff, did 8" of 2-stitch I-cord, cast on 10 more stitches and did another sock cuff-down on the other end. Yee haw! The heels were problematic, since there weren't enough stitches to do true short rows. I just decreased down to 2 stitches, then increased back up to 6 stitches to make an hourglass shape, then sewed the sides together later.

The top of the socks on the logo looks like corrugated ribbing, but that was too fussy even for me.