This project was a lot of different things for me at the same time. It all started with a purchase at an online yarn store in the UK, for the yarn needed for a blanket for a friend that was expecting a baby. I knew the yarn I wanted, and she had picked the colourway, and it just so happened that this was only available at that specific yarn store.
Anyway, when checking out, there were a couple of other yarns that stumbled into my basket (that happens to all of us, right?), amongst them was one skein of Sirdar Heart & Sole. Along with it came a 2.5mm Knitpro needle, my first 25 cm needle. It was intended as a test, because I really want to get into knitting more socks, but I haven’t quite found the right needles for me yet.

Now that I had the yarn and the needle, I needed a pattern. As always I took to Ravelry and during my search the Business Casual Pattern really caught my eye. I’m quite sure it was the blue colour of the main featured picture, because I have a serious thing for everything blue. With the lovely pictures, I was actually kind of surprised that the pattern was available for free.That surprise carried through into the PDF pattern itself.

From the start to the end, the pattern is highly professional, clearly structured and provides everything a knitter needs. Even though I have been knitting for over ten years, this has only been my second sock, and in actual fact the first time I finished both… There was never any stage while knitting where the pattern wasn’t clear regarding what my next steps were.

You can read some more about what I thought about this project on my blog.