Once Upon A Sock - April 2018

This morning I'm joining my online friend Stefanie and her "Once Upon A Sock" group...

Once Upon A Sock consists of sock knitters who post the first Thursday of every month about sock work in progress. Each also links to the posts of fellow members of the group so if you have time, please check them out:

Kathy B of Compassionknit
Kat of Felinity Knits
Katherine of Fiber and Sustenance
Reanna of Knit, Reanna, knit!
Liz of Knitty Little Sew and Sew
Steph of My Making Do Adventure
Paula of Spin a Yarn

Stefanie of Stefanie Crafts with Wool Paper Fabric
Tammy of Life and Yarn or Yarn and Life
Meg of Intergalactic
Note: Posts of members trickle in throughout the day so some posts are up and some not yet. If you love to knit socks, or are even starting to learn, you are more than welcome to join us. Contact any of us on our blogs.

At this point in April I don't have much good to say about snow except that this latest round of snow makes for good sock knitting weather. Through the last few days of storms, high winds and snow squalls I've had plenty of time to knit. And I've been monogamously knitting my second Merripog sock. 

After completing Gschnitztal I wanted something quick, easy and entirely vanilla. So I cast on Merripog. But with sock one done and sock two well over half way I'm bored. I can't wait to cast on something new and more pattern-y but I'm determined to finish Merripog first. Chances are - if I cast on something new - Merripog would be set aside indefinitely. I'd better show some discipline and get them done.

No reason why I can't daydream about the next cast on though. On Ravelry I am taking part of a year long challenge in a Canadian Swap Group. At the end of 2017 we each created 12 opaque bags of month-long projects that we've been meaning to knit. Then at the beginning of each month you grab one bag at random and knit that. For April I opened a bag to find this:

It's a sock yarn set with 100grams of a speckled variegated light denim-y blue and a 20 gram mini skein in a coordinating speckled purple; an impulse buy I made last year. One reason that I bought it was to support a new local indy dyer - Lizzie-Anne yarns. I like to try new-to-me yarns and it's always nice to "shop local'. Another reason that it jumped into my cart was to satisfy cravings for speckled yarn and coordinating heels and toes, both of which seem to be everywhere these days. 

After lots of looking about in the Ravelry database I've settled on knitting Rrribb-It! My plan is to knit the sock almost entirely in the main colour but use the mini skein for the toes and some of the narrower colour play bands suggested in the pattern. All those patterned ribbing sections look like such fun to knit. And I just couldn't bring myself to cast on another mostly vanilla sock!