Perfect for a Day of Patching and Repair.

I thought my weekend would be very different from what it was.  

I thought that I would knit on this sweater and that I would show you a mostly completed body this morning.  Did not happen.

The gauge in stockinette seems to be quite different than it is in the stitch pattern and I am a bit concerned.  Did I cast on too many stitches at the underarm? I did a try on and it fits just right...unblocked.  Mrs. Hunter's stitch pattern is going to need to be blocked to see how it really fits. A little ease is okay but I am worried that I will have much more ease than I want.  I am really really happy with the way the front pattern panel looks running down the front through the stockinette.  That was a great choice.   

By Sunday morning I knew I needed to knit something else till I blocked Mrs. Hunters sweater. I picked up my Hacho  Lipstick sweater.

   

This is such a happy knitting project.  I am utterly in love with the colours. I was going to meet with my online knitting group Sunday morning and it proved to be a bit much to flop around.  I grabbed a bag of sock knitting from in the WIPs bin.  I was looking for these.  

 

I thought they would be on top because they were the last pair I had knit on.  The sock bag I grabbed was a proto toe.  Just a mere half of a garter stitch toe in some dark Gentry Grey Kroy Sock yarn.  I could have dug a bit more but I was having a lovely chat with knitting friends. It would do.

And then the battery on my tablet died and I kept knitting. I kept on knitting on the sock because something amazing was happening.

The plan for this pair of socks is something that I enjoy doing with Kroy Sock yarn. It comes straight out of what I learned doing Monster Socks.  Put in a dark stripe to create more contrast than the original yarn designer planned for and you unlock an entirely new sock something.  All I do is to change to a dark stripe when the colour changes.  I carry the dark yarn up as I go and change at the beginning of the round nearest to the colour change. Some of the stripes have a little bit of two colours in them, but it ends up looking good anyway.  It is stripey, seductive magic and it is hard to put it down.   It didn't take long till I had a good bit of sock done.

This morning seemed like a good time to check on what else was happening in the sock bags.  I have not been paying much attention to these socks lately.  I have been having fun with the socks in the big bag full of sock yarn making double thick socks and Big Fabel worsted weight yarn socks. Time to see what else is happening in sock world.

 I have these cute striped socks on the go.  The colourway is Baby Whale or something similar.  I can't remember the company name but it is from the company that made the Watermelon sock yarn.

It is lovely and soft but I am not sure it will make good socks.  The yarn feels to soft to take the wear that is forced onto my socks.  It would make a really great pair of mittens though or a hat.  Maybe a baby something?

And this pair of plain vanilla Kroy Socks.

Tayler at the Wool Needles Hands channel was making some and I was utterly charmed.  I remain so. Yes indeed, I can leave Kroy alone and still have socks that I love.

I do have a pair of Money socks out there somewhere too.  Maybe they have been eaten by the WIPs bin?

Socks were my biggest weekend knitting and that was unexpected.  And a lot of fun.  It needs to be a sewing day today though.  I have a pile of things needing repair that cannot wait any longer so socks may well continue being the knitting of the day.  They are fun to pop in here and there and do a few quick rounds on in between.  Perfect reward knitting for a day of patching and repair.