I read about cashmere, merino, nylon sock yarn and so, of course, had to get some. I bought them from ZigoZago, a shop in country Victoria (the service was fabulous and my yarn arrived within days!).
The one on the top in the image is Dream in Colour Smooshy Cashmere in the sonoran magic colourway, the one at the bottom is tôt le matin sock in the Jane Doe colourway (it doesn’t have any cashmere, but I loved the colour and it was the same postage for one skein or two).
Gingerbread House (Top Left) – I have almost finished one section of the roof and then its just the other roof section. I am only working on this at my stitching group, so it’s months from completion.
Cinnamon Stars (Top right) – I have worked on this for a few hours this week. While watching the movie version of Brideshead Revisited and a new SBS seriesVigil. I was watching Vonna’s floss tube yesterday and she mentioned that she only ever uses size 22 needles (regardless of the linen count), so I thought I would give that a go.
I have joined A Bee in the Bonnet’s Golden Honey Sock club, so the yarn (bottom left) is for the first pattern. I have since made it into a ball and started knitting the swatch.
More progress on covering the joins of Miss A’s quilt. It’s physical hard to man-handle the quilt through the machine.
There will be no new projects until some of these are finished.
I started these socks back in April 2022 (I got waylaid by Miss P’s blanket), had a false start and then tried again and now I have finally finished them.
Here’s my original post, I stuck with the pattern and used the Yarn Harlot’s toe pattern (the 4-3-2-1 pattern).
While waiting for more yarn to arrive for P’s blanket I have switched back to my Covid project, I am on to the dress now.
I made a drawstring bag for my sock projects. The design is from Urban Threads. I stabilised it with calico, but I should have used something more sturdy as there is a bit of puckering.
I used instructions from Martha Stewart to make the bag.
I have started a new sock using Fortissima Mexica in colour 908. I am using 2.75 mm zings.
I have started with a 2 by 2 twisted rib, which I really like, however I cast on 76 stitches (seems too many, but that was what my swatch suggested) and I want to use crosshatch lace, which is a multiple of 6. So I need to drop to 72 stitches. I can rip out what I have done and start again.
Rnd 1: *K3, K2tog, YO, K1; rep from *.
Rnd 2: *K2, K2tog, YO, K2; rep from *.
Rnd 3: *K1, K2tog, YO, K3; rep from *.
Rnd 4: *K2tog, YO, K4; rep from *.
Rnd 5: *K1, YO, ssk, K3; rep from *.
Rnd 6: *K2, YO, ssk, K2; rep from *.
Rnd 7: *K3, YO, ssk, K1; rep from *.
Rnd 8: *K4, YO, ssk; rep from *.
This is what I have from The Sock Knitter’s Handbook by Beth Parrott and Charlene Schurch.
From Left to Right – Log Moderne Blanket, Christmas Sock, Halloween Cat Cross Stitch
I have been working on a few of my projects. Miss P’s blanket is progressing (slowly), I switched to Knit Pro Zing needles and it has been much nicer.
I am on to the second sock of my Christmas socks, turned the heel, so now it’s just the gusset, the foot and the toe (I am maybe a third of the way through)
And finally my Halloween Cat cross stitch is very close to being finished – I just need to finish off the last cat and do the back stitching (there’s not much of that – whiskers and mouth).