Socks - Try, try Again

After finishing a big project this past week, I decided to try socks again. I needed something that I could finish quickly and after all, I had bought the alpaca sock yarn on a whim when I visited the Twin Cities and made my hubby stop at my favorite knitting store - 3 Kittens. So I followed the same pattern as my first pair of socks thinking that the reason why they didn't work is that I was unexperienced. But I found out that the definition of insanity is doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results. Take a look at the sock that I ended up with:
Yup, still makes a sock that is too Big!!

So I searched the internet and found a sock calculator. Who knew?!! I found one at www.needletrax.com/mysocks.htm
And it worked! Here the picture of the new sock. Note that I had to make it smaller because since I used up enough yarn to make one large sock, I only have enough left to make a pair of bootie socks. Also note, that I tried to unravel the socks from the cuff down because I was going to fix the first sock - but that didn't work either! It only unravels backwards (that would be from the toe end). I would have had to unknit the entire sock! I like that alpaca yarn - but not that much! So much for my fast project I was looking for.
Much better. Note: my husband makes a good sock model. Now one more to go. When I finish. I'll take a picture of both socks at the same time.
Another thing I found out is that my cat George loves any natural yarn, wool, etc. Look at what he thinks about the sock:

I now want to call him - Alpaca George!!