SockTart

Okay, well I got those finished fast.  The last post (from today, no less) mentioned I was working on these.  I managed to finish them off in the past half hour.

I like them just fine.  The colourway is Black Purl from Lorna’s Laces.  I overthought what I was going to do with this one, and wound up just casting on a pattern called “Carolina, Last Queen of Naples”.  I thought there would be more of a chevron (zig-zag) effect, but I guess I was wrong.  I suppose it depends on how tightly you knit, and probably your gauge.

Still have quite a bit left over.  One skein finished 1.65 socks.  I may be able to make another small pair of socks with the leftovers.  Whatever….they feel comfy, and that’s the main thing

Robin got a new pair of socks for Yule. Actually, Robin, his Mum and my Mum all got socks for Yule. Robin’s socks were knit sorta on the sly (I didn’t talk much about ‘em and he didn’t ask), and were a pattern I made up myself. I’m kinda hoping to find some way of translating it to a pdf pattern in case I get a wild hair to post it. The pattern name is “Medivh” for the legendary mage of Warcraft Lore. It’s just as twisted as him.

As for X-mas…we had a lazy X-mas eve as Robin was trying to nap for most of the afternoon in hopes of going to bed at the same time as me. Working graves makes it difficult to flip his schedule on special holidays. I think we watched Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix on DVD. X-mas day was spent with the two families. Robin’s folks in the morning and mine in the evening. Lots of yarn-related goodness ensued. Robin’s Mum got me about 3 or 4 skeins of sock yarn (whee!!!) and my Mum found a couple of sock knitting books that I was wanting to pick up.

Looks like I may have another pair of socks off the needles fairly soon anyhow. I had been about 60% of the way through a pair of Carolina, Last Queen of Naples from Monkey Toes (looks like the site owner is going through a few end-of-year growing pains). Over the past couple of days, I’ve gotten the leg and heel of sock #2 done. Just working my way down to the toe now. Squee! So many new things to play with. We’ll see what I work on next.

Hope everyone else is having as happy a holiday season as I am!