Home Stretch & April Sock Planning

I'm in the home stretch with my Thelonious socks.  Only another 1/2" to go before I start the toes.  My goal is to finish them by the end of the weekend, which means before I go to bed tonight.  I just walked in from an Usborne book home party, so hopefully I'll have enough time after dinner to get them done.  I'm so excited!  And just in time for the April knit-a-longs (KALs) to start...

For April, I plan to knit two or three pairs of socks for various KALs.

Sock #1
Wendy Johnson's Bavarian Cable Socks from "Socks from the Toe Up"

Stock photo for Bavarian Cable Socks

My plan so far is to knit them in a dark, solid teal color.  I have some Lions Brand Sock-Ease yarn in colorway "Snow Cone."  This is the same yarn that I used for March's Ribbed Ribbon socks, just a different color.  Not my favorite yarn to work with, but it's thin, and I find that Wendy's socks run a smidge big for my narrow feet so a thinner yarn will give me a smaller gauge which gives me smaller socks.

Sock-Ease Yarn in Snow Cone

Sock #2
Cookie A's Mona socks from "Knit. Sock. Love."

Stock photo for Mona Socks

I'm going to knit them in purple so that not only will they qualify for the "Knit Sock Love" KAL, but I can also use them for the "Solid Socks" KAL since their sock color for April is purple.  Purple isn't my favorite color, but if I end up hating them, they'll become a gift.

Knit Picks Gloss in Cosmos

 And even though two pairs of socks in a month was an accomplishment this month (if I finish tonight, I'll have 4 days to spare!), there is a third pair I'd like to knit for the Sock Knitters Anonymous KAL.  Their April theme is unusual construction - socks knitted differently than the usual toe-up or cuff-down construction.  I really want to knit a pattern called Skew - they're in my socks-to-knit queue - and they fit the requirements.  Check them out - instead of being knit straight across the foot, they're knit on a diagonal.

Sock #3
Lana Holden's Skew socks

Stock photo of Skew socks

And take a look at the heel - that's definitely an unusual construction!

I have some awesome rainbow self-striping yarn that I want to use just like the person who knit these socks did:

How awesome that I have the same yarn in my stash - woohoo!  (Okay, fine, I admit it.  I don't just happen to have the same yarn.  I purposely bought it so I could make these socks.  So there.  You got me.  But I bought it a couple of weeks ago, so officially it is stash yarn now.  HA!)

Enough typing.  More knitting.  Thelonious.... I'm comin' for yoooouuu!!!!