Advent Adventures

This morning, to accompany my tea, I am digging in yarn.  I can't think of anything more delightful than this except possibly for knitting.  

I am planning to do some advent knitting to make some socks.  Mijn Wolden did some chaos socks for Socktober where she shook a dice to choose the colour of yarn and then shook again to choose the number of rows to knit in that colour.  It was fun to watch so I thought I would do that for my Advent socks. 

And that is why I am digging in the sock yarn today.  

This is my entire sock yarn stash  except for this.

This is what I kept close at hand in case I needed to knit socks and didn't want to dig for some.

I am a wee bit picky about socks.  I love strong contrast and have a very clear idea of colours as I like them to be put together.  YMMV.  It is a thing that I think is pretty individual to each of us, so your way of putting colours together may be quite different to mine.  The idea of using a dice to make the choices for me, is the tiniest bit scary.  Still, I learned a lot about colours as I knit the Flea sweater this year. Letting go can be fun.  

Step one is to pick 6 yarns. Or maybe it should be 6 pairs of yarns.  If I do pairs, there should be a strong contrast between the two yarns.  If I do 6 single skeins, there should be good contrast between all of them.  Then I have to number the yarns or pairs of yarns from one to six for a regular dice.

Next, I have to talk to Keith.  He has a bunch of dice, the fancy gaming kind.   I am going to use a 12 sided dice for my row counting dice.  

And then I have to knit.  Today the goal is two garter toe squares.  

I do have another advent goal.  Amy gave me a blanket to fix in the spring and December is the time to focus on it so I can give it back to her at Christmas.  Knitting for me may take a back seat for a bit except for the sock knitting.  So it goes.