Hello friends! We are back up and running after last week's techno-hiccough.
So, I finished these:
And I gave them to my sister, who is a handmade socks convert. She wore out the previous pair I'd made for her last Christmas. That's the best thing you can ever do for knitters - wear out what they knit for you. They don't spend all that time and all those thousands of stitches to have the finished object just sit on a shelf or in a drawer because "it's too pretty to use." I look forward to hearing that the blanket I made recently for the making-her-appearance-any-day-now owlet has had food spilled on it, and has been spit up on and drooled on and dragged around, and gets washed so many times that it pills, and the colors fade. That's what knitting is for.
I started another pair out of TOFUtsies yarn, which I also got from the yarn swap. It's superwash wool, soysilk (get it?), cotton, and chitin. I avoid knitting with pure cotton yarn because it's so hard on the hands, but blended in with other fibers, it isn't too bad. Still a bit squeaky though.
More bright colors, although my camera isn't doing them justice:
I also have more of this yarn brand in a strange shade of pink. I have enough of it to make several pairs of socks. I'll see if my sister likes the feel of the yarn, and if she does, I'll make a pair for her and a pair for me. It's handy that my sister, my mom, and I all wear the same shoe size. If I make a pair of socks to fit me, they'll fit either of them.
I have quite a bit of veggie shawl to show you next week.
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