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so I have to be honest and admit straight up that Craig and I have been semi-fighting over this particular sock yarn! we both really really love it and wanted it for ourselves so in the end we went online and hunted down another ball of this wool… #secrettoasuccessfulmarriage
Of course there is a story… I saw this yarn in Japan -of course! Japan has the coolest stuff, I’m telling you… Craig was in the store with me and picking up and admiring various sock yarns too; and because he was being so patient while I browsed sock yarn endlessly I promised that I would knit a pair of socks for him if he just picked some yarn. I mean, that seems fair, right? a pair of socks in exchange for a trip to Japan?! yeah I thought so too… hehe… anyway! I had chosen all the yarn I wanted and I went up and bought it. A little later, and I’ve started knitting it up, and Craig goes, those are my socks, aren’t they? and I go, um, nooooooo? and he goes, but that’s the yarn I wanted for my socks! and I go, well I wanted it too, and I tooooold you to put some yarn to the basket if you wanted any! and he goes well I thought THAT one was for me, and I go, no it’s for me! and then he looked quite crestfallen and so did I because I DID really want to knit a pair of socks for him, that he loved. And so then in an exceptionally generous gesture I thought, because I too really really love this yarn I said oh, ok you can have them, then he said, no it’s ok, you can have them, and I’m like, no I want you to have them, and he’s like, no, it’s ok… well you get the picture. So in the end, yeah; we went online and found some more, so very soon we’re going to have matching feet … you know when you’re young and newly in love, and there’s a stage where you dress like each other?? well it’s been a while, and actually I’m not even sure we ever ever went through that stage! but looks like we are going to go through it after all…
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So this yarn is the legendary Opal yarn, that it seems you can buy everywhere in the world except Australia, grrr… the label reads KFS Kesennuma, colour Forest, or KFS108. and is a really beautiful, verdant array of deep teal, bottle free, olive green, bluey-grey green, and through to a springy leaf green and pure ivory… I love the way it knits up to mimic a fair isle design, the repeat is just like the yoke of a Scottish or Scandinavian jumper. It’s my favourite colourway out of all the self-striping sock yarns I bought, because of that clean “evergreen trees in a snowy wintery wonderland” vibe. I can almost smell the pine needles!
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I used my old Patons tried and true basic sock pattern, and carefully arranged the colours to have the heel in all the darks, and cut and spliced so as to have a mostly pure white toe, though just a tiny spray of green at the very end snuck in there too… so pretty!!
the updated box of socks… and I reckon I should have started with a bigger basket!
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