I picked my yarns
and am aware of some 'holes' in my sock yarn collection. I could have used a purple or a royal blue to replace the dark grey black and I wish my green had been a brighter teal. I did think about using a multi colour but my multis in those colours are striping multis and that just didn't feel right. These are all commercial yarns so that I can wash and dry my socks in machines. If I was using hand dyed yarns there would be so many more options but that defeats the dryer drying. These yarns may not be spectacular but I already have them, and they are all good quality yarns.
Since I couldn't find a regular dice, and since Keith was at work and couldn't give me his 12 sided dice, I used a random number generator to begin. I numbered my colours, from 1 to 6, yellow, green, turquoise, red, black, orange. First roll of the dice said 2, so toe number 1 is green. I meant to only do the toe, but it felt kind of fun. Roll 2 gave me 6 and 7, so orange, yarn 6, for 7 rows. I still felt like knitting so on to another roll. That gave me 4 and 9 so red for 9 rows.
And so on. You should try this. It's a fun way to approach knitting a pair of socks. I am going to keep good track on my Ravelry page as the rows and numbers grow and change.
I am knitting for a bit this morning and then I will get to work on my other advent project. So many things to do. I love Christmas.
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