I get a fair number of people asking me how I learned to design socks or asking if I've been knitting for ages.  This is very flattering, but I feel the need to confess.  I've only been knitting seriously for about two years.  I'll explain. About seven or eight years ago, I decided to learn to knit.  I cobbled together something resembling the knit stitch and made a large and very ugly rectangle. Having never been very good at taking small steps, I then decided that I was destined to create intricate cables.  I got Elsebeth Lavold's Viking Patterns for [...]