These are my latest socks, destined for Mom for her birthday. She likes socks too; or, at least she likes to receive the socks I make for her. And she wears them, this makes her entirely knit-worthy. So is my Dad for that matter.
This yarn is just so dang COOL; I love it! I found a variegated and solid in both purple and blue (the blue will be for me) at my LYS that just cried out to be used together. I absolutely LOVE the results. The striping came out really neat, different on each sock, even different in different parts of the sock. Wonderful. There's enough yarn left to do an inverse pair too.
Pattern: Improvised Basic Sock
Yarn: West Yorkshire Spinners Signature 4 Ply in 805 and 731
Needle: 2.5mm
Gauge: 41 stitches and 48 rows = 10 cm
I forgot to post about this when it arrived a couple weeks ago:
Yup. Knitpicks had a cotton sale. When they have a sale it's usually enough to discount the exchange rate to Canada so I stock up. This should keep me busy for a while.
Actually, it's not all cotton, there is some Knit Picks Gloss DK in there too for my very own Star Wars Scarf. I made a Star Wars Scarf for my nephew last Christmas and it was well received but it still pained me slightly to give it away. I'm keeping this one for myself.
Current Weather
9C and clear. We've had a brush with Winter and now we're back to Fall. Prairie weather is totally messed.
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