I seem to have added yet another job to the schedule, which blows my plans for Summer of Socks all to hell*. I'll keep my goal of finishing at least (ahahaha) a pair of socks every two weeks, to be eligible for those drawings, because winning sockyarn represents about 70% of my sockyarn acquiring possibilities these days. But finishing a pair every two weeks just got more difficult.
Here is Maizy in Wendy's Summer of Socks 08 pattern:
Going good so far, but the ssks are annoyingly easy to split the yarn on.
Did I show you these?
Monkabiddies, I love them.
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Did it work? These are the Earl Grays that it took me forever and ever to finish. And of course I way overshot the second toe and could have finished them much sooner if I avoided knitting and then frogging an extra inch and a half. Other seems to like them and doesn't seem to have keeled over from an allergic reaction to the wool content: double win!
And finally, in contrast, the fastest socks ever:
Sportweight. My secret weapon in SoS 08. Now if I can avoid finishing the two socks 10 months apart, we'll be in good shape.
*but it does wonders for my "eating and being in graduate school at the same time" plans, which I will grudgingly admit may take precedence here
1 comment:
The Monkabiddies are gorgeous... the colorway really works with that pattern!
And I'm glad to see someone other than me had some travail with the Earl Greys... though mine was pretty much all with the cables. I am eternally thankful for dark-colored yarn, which hides any mis-twists so forgivingly. ;)
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