Squeaking in just under the wire, my socks for February… I only just finished them this arvo; quick took a few pictures and hastened to write this post, toute suite! Man; I’ve got to stop setting ridiculous deadlines for myself, like trying to fit in little projects like this around a wedding dress. A pair of socks each month? really?? what was I thinking! the wedding dress has been taking up AAAAAALLLLLLL my time… I’m enjoying it all so much! and am very very excited to share it here once it’s finished… I’m so proud of it and think it’s looking beautiful, even half done! Just this week I’ve reached a point where I have to do another fitting with Kelly before I can do any more and she has been too busy to pop over; thus giving me a few days to do other stuff. Thus, the February socks got finished! and I also managed to squeeze in a new little sundress for myself too, hehe…
the photos above? well I snapped a nice clean sterile picture of the socks, all very neat and tidy and with no Sophie, but then she trotted over to say hi and obviously is stealing the show. ‘Ello, you booful big floooffy cushion you! “Ooose a booful girl now? What a natural!
but the socks!! My brain is all over the shop, sorry, but honestly there’s not much to say… the sophisticated mottled grey with occasional rusty splodges was the 25th and last, mystery skein I received in my Dingo Dyeworks advent calendar; the large box to be opened on Christmas Day. And I had little bit of rusty coloured wool leftover from my rag-doll Sally’s hair; Morris Empire Superwash merino 4ply, in colour 441, Rust Twist; to be exact. At first I was little lacklustre on the grey, held the rust against it and liked the combo, decided on stripes. I thought it’d make them more interesting; and it does, just a little! but I admit not by much, haha! The “leg” of the sock is two rows of the grey per one row of rust.
The pattern is my standard sock pattern, from Mum’s Patons pamphlet from the 60s, the same one I’ve used for literally ALL my other hand knitted socks.
Now I just have a few more blog posts to write on some other things I’ve snuck in lately, the sundress, and another thing, and then it’s back to the wedding dress! Eeeek! Such a whirlwind!
the box of socks!
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