I am so pleased with these. There is just nothing like hand knit socks. All day I planned to put them on this morning, but I left them in the living room last night. It's to chilly to be without socks even for a minute. Tomorrow will be a new sock day instead.
While I was preparing to take the photo I had to search long and hard for my sock forms. They are usually kicking around somewhere, tucked into the WIPs bin, tucked in a project bag, laying on the side table. They have always been rather benign and not bothersome exactly because of their flat plastic placemat origin. So they stayed. A couple weeks ago, in an effort to live a life less piled up, I put them away, where I could easily find them. Ha. I did find one in my needle case, which is a perfectly sensible place to store them, along with my mitten forms. I still haven't located the second sock form.
I pulled out all my sock projects while I was searching to have a good look to see if there are any other pairs that need only a few days of work till completion. Because I was getting frustrated by not finding the sock form, I grabbed a sock and knit a few rounds on it.
It wasn't really what I wanted to do. It was lovely to work with though. The yarn is from Biscotte yarns. I have no idea what the clour name is. The ball band is lost. (Are you sensing a running theme?)
The rest of yesterdays knitting time was spent working on Carter's Secret Blanket.
I have just broken into the second ball of grey so I can very confidently say I have plenty of yarn. I have double what I need in fact. The blanket is at about 30 inches long just at finishing the third blue stripe. I measured the first stripe and the two grey sections and they are 20 inches, so my plan is to knit that much more. 50 x 45 ish will be a perfect blanket size for a growing boy.
I will be working in the sewing room today, not sewing, sadly, but doing a bit of maintenance (putting away). Yeah that's what I will call it. Maintenance.
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