I finished my November pair of socks; yay! And actually within the month of November too.. double yay!
So I bought this Utterly Divine Yarn #capitalswarranted in San Francisco during mine and Yoshimi’s holiday there… we visited this fantastic little yarn store called Imagiknit in the Castro area and of course I had to buy a souvenir! Yoshimi did too, and finished hers super quick… see here!
This is actually my very first wearable souvenir of my US trip to be made up and realised, just a little more than a month after coming home but given my current workload I consider that to be not too bad, not too bad at all!
The yarn is Urth merino sock yarn, col 2002, made in Turkey; I did look out for some US made/grown yarn but simply could not walk away from this colourway once I’d spotted it.. isn’t it just the most glorious set of colours?!! I couldn’t resist winding it up during my stopover in Auckland on the way home, hehehe; yes; it’s weird to wind yarn in public BUT; killing time, and doing something constructive towards my next pair of socks, well seems like a good idea to me! Two ladies separately came up to me in the lounge and we had little chats about knitting and yarn, which was really nice! Aaah, knitting…. the great equaliser.
contemplating winding in public
it’s kinda rare to get a view like this while you’re winding yarn
and… done! I thought it fitted right in with the decor of the Air New Zealand business lounge
I so enjoyed knitting this up; as each little section of colour came up I drooled anew every single time. That dusky plum-pink! that rich chocolate-y purple! that sharp acidic safety-vest yellow!! SO GORGEOUS!! REOUUUWW! – that’s me ripping into the ball of yarn with my teeth and gobbling it all up; it’s just that yummy…. metaphorically speaking, obviously!
It’s a wondrous thing to not tire of the yarn before finishing the socks; usually you do get just a wee bit over the colour before the end but in this case I was just as fully in love with it at the last grafting-off as I was when I first spotted it on the shelf.
le Box of Socks…
Now just one final question comes to mind … is it possible to squeeze that one last, 12th pair of socks into the box, mmm?? This remains to be seen… stay tuned!
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