KNIT. SOCK. LOVE. : BFF • Clandestine • Cusp • German Stockings • Gothic Spire • Hedera • In and Out • Lissajous • Marilinda • Mona • Monkey • Pointelle • Rhombus • Sake • Stalagmite • Stricken • Thelonious • Twisted Flower • WedgeA month since my last post! Where does the time go?! Last weekend was spent in Ottawa, helping my brother and sister-in-law into their new house. The tradespeople had been in replacing the roof, the furnace, the electrical and the hot water heater, but there was still a long list of smaller chores that needed doing. We rolled up our sleeves and they put us to work! My work has also been unending craziness, so no time to knit there either!
With being so busy, Pointelle languished on the needles for a few weeks. But finally over the past several days I've managed to get both socks done. I knit the large size, but then decreased at the top of the heel flap to narrow it, then continued the gusset decreases to 66 sts for the feet.; they'd have been too big otherwise. If I did them again, I'd shift down a needle size or knit the smaller size altogether.
Although the pattern was very "chart-y" it was much faster and easier than it looked at first glance. The arrowhead lace pattern is quite intuitive so just glancing at the chart to start the round was all that was needed. Every other row is plain knit, so that's makes it speedy too. And surprisingly there was no purling or knitting through the back loop except of the ribbed cuff!
The yarn is Twisted MCN from Studio June Yarn. It's lovely to work with and it wears beautifully. This "Lime Light" colourway is a nice bright pop of colour!
Yesterday I did take a few minutes to put up my Smitten (a Holiday Garland) knitted decorations from a couple of years ago. Rather than stringing them on a garland I decided instead to hang them on the fridge door with magnets arranged in the shape of a Christmas tree. Cute, huh? And happily each little mitten fits two Lindor chocolate balls - one for me and one for Gavin. I bought the felt numbers off eBay from a UK seller with a CriCut machine and glued them on. Each mitten is knit from scrap yarn - some are sock yarn held double, some are DK and some are worsted.That's about as far as I've got with holiday decorating. The fake tree's up in the hallway but it seems I got tired of most of our decorations last year and gave them to the thrift shop. As a result the effect is kind of au naturel this year. I tried to convince Gavin that having the strings of lights puddled below the tree was festive enough, but he wasn't buying it, so I did spend an evening stringing them around the tree .... or rather deeply in the branches to add to the subtlety of the decor, as it turns out.
Gavin hung the stockings in the hallway, so I've bought a few things I wanted and tucked them in my own stocking. I'm thrilled to report that I will finally own some 6" 2.25mm DPNs as of Christmas day! I'm still trying to figure out if a skein or two of Madeleine Tosh yarn would fit in there!
7 comments:
Those are fabulous socks!
I never thought of filling my own stocking... we stopped doing stockings a few years back because the only thing Dave put in mine was chocolate. Chocolate, chocolate and more chocolate....
I love the mitten tree....and I think this is the longest I've seen you take to make a pair of socks! But you were plenty busy.....I have cleaned the tree area, but that's about it...we get a real one every year...sometime this week...
Socks are lovely as always, but I'm particularly charmed by the mitten tree.
How lovely that your "Secret Santa" knows precisely what you need ;)
Ohh I do love those socks and I think the colour helps with that as well, just so bright and cheery. Hope things settle down now for you. I love what you've done with your mittens this year, this year I'm pegging mine on a line over the fireplace so it looks like a whole host of wee mittens drying out. We fit 8 little snowmen pieces of chocolate in ours for the children. Yayyyy to the dpns and I'm sure yarn would fit in there after all it's squishly soft. I wanted to ask do you knit your socks on dpns or do you do the magic loop? and do you favour one over the other and why?
Sock designers are amazing. They squeeze all today texture into a small circumference. Your socks are art. I remember when you made those mittens! And I remember when you bought those number cut outs. That is creative to arrange them that way.
Sad to hear you got rid of your Christmas ornaments. Your socks are lovely.
Oh yeah...yarn fills in all the tightest empty spots. Love those socks. They are amazing!
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