Keeping Knit Picks In Business

The mailman just brought my latest Knit Picks order.  The two knitting needles and the bottom skein of yarn (Tree Fort) were for my Mom's birthday present.  I really wanted the rainbow yarn to make knee-high socks using a pattern called Skew, and then it was so close to free shipping that I added a couple more yarns rather than pay the shipping.  (How's that for justification???)

Stroll Sport - Neapolitan (2)

Stroll Felici - Rainbow (3)

47" circulars - sizes 0 and 1

Stroll Tonal - Golden Glow

Stroll Handpainted - Tree Fort

And if that's not enough, tomorrow Michelle, Leigh, and I are knitting and then going on a field trip to a LYS (local yarn store) - The Sheep Shack in Holden.  Good thing I had 26 people in last Wednesday's Zumba class.  One hour of Zumba equals yarn for eight pairs of socks - woohoo!

As for actually using some of my growning stash of sock yarn...

Last night I knit the heel flaps for my Thelonious socks.  Because the heel required shifting stitches (unlike some patterns where you just work the heel on one existing side of stitches), I had to take the socks off the circular needle onto dpns (double pointed needles) to readjust.  Since they were on dpns anyway, I decided to work the heels individually and then return both socks to the circular needle to finish working in the round once I get to the feet.  Here's a picture showing both socks with finished heel flaps:

You can see one red needle at the top of each sock which is the end of the heel flap.  There are two needles in each sock about 2" lower where the leg ended.  The extra needles are just stuck through the socks going up and down in the photo so I don't lose them.

Even though both skeins of yarn are from the same dye lot, you can see they obviously didn't start in the same point of the color patterning.  The left sock started in a darker portion and now is working into a lighter section as shown by the remaining skein above it.  The right sock started out lighter and now is working into the darker yarn.  Veeeeery interesting...  I guess we'll see how they look when they're done!