#yarn along
These are my March socks! I was a tad late in finishing them, though not much, as I finished them on April 3rd. I named these my Halifax Socks, since I bought the yarn in a Halifax farmer’s market before I moved, and I started knitting them on my recent flight to Halifax. It was a toss up between that and “mermaid socks,” since the colour variation reminds me of a mermaid’s scales. So pretty!
I LOVE this yarn! The colours are beautiful, and it felt so nice on my hands while knitting with it. The yarn is Fleece Artist, Blue Face Leicester Socks, and I used about 60g. I didn’t use a pattern, since I wanted the colour variation to really pop - I think it made for a wonderful pair of socks!
Ravelry link here.
Aren’t they adorable? And the pattern converts to several different yarn weights, as well as several different versions of the pattern (a skirt, pants, etc.).
Hopefully they arrive safe and sound in Halifax!
Ravelry link here. The pattern is Vanilla, and I used Cascade 220 in Forest Green (it is actually a bit darker than the pictures are showing). I made the newborn size, which runs a bit small I think, so I might go a size up next time. I used 41g of the yarn, so still have enough left for another small project.
I also finished my March socks only a few days late, and a post about them is coming. Currently I am working on my April socks, which are adorable Pencil Socks! I love how they are turning out.
I’m still determined to make a pair of socks for myself in each month of this year, and I finished my February socks on the 28th of the month. I know I’m a little bit late on posting pictures! I love how these socks turned out, and I’ll probably use this pattern again. I used the Zigzagular sock pattern, but modified them to be toe-up (which also switched the left and right socks).
The yarn was Regia 4-fadig Classic, which Heather got for me at Christmas as a thank you for cat-sitting her cat for a few days. I loved knitting with it, and the colours are just beautiful!
Zigzagular socks, Ravelry link here.
On another note, I got the sock-blockers shown in the first image at a yarn store in Halifax, and I really like them. They are wood and hand-made. However, since they get wet and then dried all the time, the wood is starting to come apart a bit, and they aren’t in the best condition. Does anyone have any ideas how I could stop the degeneration of the sock blockers? Or do I just have to accept it, and get new ones once these get too worn out?
This week I’ve also been reading for fun, even though my schedule says I probably shouldn’t. I used a gift card I had to buy “Brain on Fire” by Susannah Cahalan, and it was amazing. I read the entire book in one day, I really couldn’t put it down. Granted, I am a neuroscience nerd to begin with, but it is written in such a way that you don’t have to be in order to enjoy the book. 10/10 would recommend.
When Kylie, Heather and I went to Rhinebeck back in October, I ended up getting a beautiful skein of Malabrigo Sock Yarn. I hadn’t intended to buy it, but when we went to a little yarn shop called Fabulous Yarns which was giving away goodie bags (awesome), they had the Malabrigo on sale and I just couldn’t pass it up. Such pretty purples, and it looks a little bit different whenever the light changes.
Of course, since the yarn was so lovely, I needed to find a perfect pattern to make. I decided right away that I didn’t want to make socks, since I wanted to make something that would be more visible. After a bit of humming and hawing (hawwing?) I decided that a shawl would be the ideal type of knit to make from this yarn.
I wanted something simple, to show off the lovely colours in the yarn, but also something with drape and some interest, so I didn’t get bored knitting it.
I ended up going withAntarktis by Janina Kallio, which is just beautiful. The pattern is well-written, it is simple to knit but not boring, and it shows off the colours of the yarn so nicely. When i purchased the pattern, she had a buy 2 get one free sale, so I have two other patterns to look forward to knitting in the future!
Ravelry link for my Antarktis here. Much thanks to the talented Kylie (at Stitches and Spoonfuls) for the photos.
I am always frozen. Seriously, always cold. It can be the middle of July in Canada and I’ll still be sleeping under a feather duvet.
As a result, working out can be a bit tricky, because until I’m sufficiently warmed up, I’m essentially freezing in my shorts and tank top. Of course, I can knit, so there is always a solution waiting in the wings for these sorts of problems! My mom gave me some lovely grey and white flecked yarn for Christmas, which I immediately envisioned as a pair of “old sock” or “Roots” style leg warmers. As a bonus benefit, this also helps me go through stash yarn!
I really like how they turned out, and they are very warm. I based them off of a pattern by Bernat, but I made quite a few modifications to make them turn out the way I wanted them to (e.g. knit in round, changed dimensions, knit some ribbing on the bottom edge).
Leg Warmers on Ravelry.
I finally managed to finish these socks! They took so long…
I started them before my Australia trip, at the end of July. However, I was so busy on the trip that I didn’t make much progress. Then, when I came back to Canada, I moved to Toronto, started school, and got started on my Christmas knitting (which I enjoyed more than these socks).
However, I really hate having unfinished knitting projects languishing around. It bugs me, and nags at me until I finish them. Plus, one of my New Year’s resolutions is to make myself a pair of socks each month for 2017. I decided I could cheat a bit, and that even though I started these halfway through 2016, I would count them as my January socks if I finished them by the end of January. Thank goodness I did!
While I really like the pattern (Business Casual by TFA), I’m not such a huge fan of cables in general, so these socks took me forever to get through. While the finished pair is beautiful, I won’t be making another pair (which is too bad for some of my family, who were hinting to me how much they liked them!).
Business Casual on Ravelry, made from Manos del Uruguay. I love love love the yarn, will definitely be using it again. Eventually. My other New Year’s Resolution is to severely reduce the size of my stash, so it’ll be a while before I feel like I can buy yarn again without feeling ridiculously guilty.
