Well done Mary on mastering your socks and finishing them.
I love knitting, it is so therapeutic to be able to have something to pick up and put down.
I think Mum must have taught me to knit, I don't remember learning as such.
In my teens I made a knitted suit and was so proud of it, but then I was tall and skinny then, so could get away with it.
The Christmas before last, I bought some beautiful, random patterned, paired socks for my 2 GGC. There were 3 socks in each 'pair', no doubt to account for the ones that go missing. I was so taken with them that U found a pattern and knitted more for the little boy. He uses them as welly socks, as I think they were on the big size.
At the moment I am using up odds and ends and making cannula sleeves/ socks for a baby unit.