Must... finish... monthly.... KAL.... socks!!!
With almost twelve hours to spare, I'm happy to report that I didn't have to push it that far this month. But it was close! My Hedera socks were done at 11:20 AM today.
They turned out even prettier than the picture shows. The Apricot yarn from Grant Creek Yarn has subtle variations in the color ranging from an almost-yellowy pale orange to a darker mid-range orange. In the photo above, it looks like a solid, but it really is a semi-solid with some beautiful gradience of color. This pattern is girlie and lacy and perfect for spring or a cool summer night. And it's my first pair of orange socks, so they look great in my hand-knit sock stack in my closet.
Tomorrow is July 1st. (Gee, Melissa, considering today is June 30th, we never would have guessed that.) Aaaaand.... we all know what that means! (If you don't, then you obviously haven't read many of my earlier blog posts.)
More sock cast-ons!!! (insert happy sock knitting music here)
The next Cookie A. sock for the Knit Sock Love KAL is called BFF. Cookie made up the pattern to knit a sock for her BFF, hence the name. (Not every pattern name needs to have some deep meaning, people.) I originally was going to knit them in a dark, almost-charcoal gray since the Solid Socks group's colors for July are black/gray/white. But gray? In the middle of summer? And black socks are always good but wouldn't show up the pattern as well as I'd like. Plus this pattern does well with some minor color variations, unlike many of the more complex Cookie socks where a straight solid works best. So I did some stash diving.
If you knit or crochet or even sew, did you ever have a time where a pattern and yarn (or fabric) just seemed to be made for each other? It's like the clouds part and a ray of sun shines down in a big ahhhhh moment. I have a yarn in my stash that just called out to me.
Melissa... Melissa... I'm your BFF yarn. Just what you're looking for! I'm right here! Over here. Here. HERE!!! Hello??? Are you even looking at me??? Take all the other darn yarn off me, you sock yarn hoarder! I'm freakin' perfect for those socks!!! No... NO!!! Don't even think about buying more yarn when you have me! I'm right HEEERRREEEEE!!!!
It was subtle, but magical.
Knit Picks Imagination yarn in Looking Glass
So I wound it into cakes and am ready to go!
Once again, I'm ignoring my poor Stricken socks which have sat in knitting purgatory since mid-June. We're traveling to PA for the Fourth of July so I don't want to take anything too complicated. That means that the yarn & needles for the BFFs are coming with me, and Stricken is the little piggy that will be crying wee-wee-wee all the way home.
Happy Fourth of July!
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