Remember a couple of weeks ago, when I mentioned some entrelac socks that just weren’t working out? Well, I ripped back and tried again in stockinette, and that didn’t look good either, so I temporarily abandoned those. Instead, I cast on for these two Sundays ago:
This is that luscious merino-tencel blend I bought at Ellen’s 1/2 Pint Farm at the fiber festival last month, and the pattern is from there as well. I love the way they turned out, and they were a really fast knit!
And literally, just as I was hiding the last end, the mail truck pulled up. And what was in it but my Hot Socks swap package from my pal Camilla! Yes, I got this lovely package all the way from Denmark:
There’s two skeins of lovely blue cotton/wool blend sock yarn, some very interesting looking cocoas, dark chocolates, a book of Hans Christian Andersen stories to share with Carrie, and some pretty little bangles for Carrie to wear. The cocoa is basically chocolate on a stick, which you put into your mug and pour hot milk over – I’ve never seen anything like it, but I can’t wait to try it! I’m also really excited about the solid colored sock yarn, since I seem to be on a lacy sock kick lately. Thank you, Camilla, for such a lovely package!
Unfortunately, some gift knitting – both Christmas and otherwise – needs to be accomplished before I can cast on another pair of socks. In the meantime, I’ll have to go in search of the perfect lacy (or cabled?) pattern to use my pretty blue yarn for…
Speaking of Christmas gifts, I have 11 gifts completed and 4 more so close it’s almost ridiculous to consider them unfinished. (I need to go buy two sets of 30″ shoelaces and they’re done.) There are 6 more gifts in the works, and then I may try to fit one or two more in there if I have the time. By Thanksgiving, anything that isn’t done, reasonably close to done, or is more than a day’s worth of crafting time to do is not getting done. That’s what Amazon is for, right?
I love those socks! I, too, have been so busy doing holiday things that I’m running out of projects I can post on my blog. But I have to say, getting yarn from overseas has been quite a highlight (mine came from the UK). I think I’m hooked on these swaps now! BTW- Happy belated birthday to Carrie. :)
Love your socks! You’re like me — I have Christmas gifts to make and some other things to make before I can let myself cast on a pair of socks for me. Hubby really needs some wool work socks. At least they knit up fast!
Sarah, these are some of the prettiest socks I’ve seen in a long time – I love the way the yarn looks in the lacy pattern!