Socks for my sweetie. New handknit socks have become a sort of tradition around here, which is really just me shooting myself in the foot — who wants more deadline knitting a month after Christmas? Nonetheless, here they are, self-striping yarn from the turtlepurl (colourway: "Burberry"), purchased at The Purple Purl. The pattern is a simple 3x1 rib to show off the stripes. Which I find fascinating, actually, because usually I knit with hand-dyed variegated yarns, whose pairs never look the same. Sometimes they don't even look related. So this thing about having a pair of socks that are identical? It's kind of blowing my wee mind.
These have progressed significantly since I took this picture — there are only about 10 more rounds before the toe decreases. I should be able to do them in plenty of time.
And for my other sweetie:
A sweet little dress with Noro stripes. (The Purple Purl had a massive markdown on one of my two favourite Noro colourways in Ayatori. How could I not?) I blocked this last night, so it is all ready for the day; luckily my mother knits so hopefully she will appreciate my handiwork.
Alas, I myself do not get new socks this year. I decided to prioritize Pd, who got ... well, three. (Two for Christmas, one for the new year.) This is fair because I've kind of stiffed him in the sock department for the past couple of years, and he's been very patient about it. (Last year, he got his socks — his cushy, warm, 15% cashmere socks — in July. And he was happy. The man is a saint.)
I did start on a pair, on Monday, but honestly, I wasn't going to be able to start and finish a pair of socks while finishing another pair and weaving in the ends of a toddler dress and doing the button bands and buttons of another toddler cardigan ... inside of a week. (The latter is a birthday gift. You'll see it once it's been gifted.)
Besides which, this arrived in the mail on Monday night, and kind of put all other yarn on hold:
Fyberspates Elegance Lace, which is 65% silk and 35% baby camel, in "plum 3" (nominally a little darker and richer than in that picture). It is gorgeous. It has the sheen of silk but the camel keeps it from catching on the needles the way silk often does. This will be yet another cardigan for me — justified because it's been several months since I knit anything for me, one, and two, because it's been frigidly cold out and I've proven that I do wear my handknits, if winter gives me a chance.
Although, mind you, I wouldn't exactly say no if winter stopped given me any more chances to do so until, say, next December?
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