I’ve been knitting. It may not even be Hallowe’en yet but I know that Christmas will sneak up and surprise me again. Like it does every year! Anyway, the first in law sock is complete:
What you have here is your basic Tesserae sock by Anne Hanson. Lovely patter! I did the Eye of the Partridge heel. So pretty. The yarn is my uber-favourite sock yarn – Indigo Moon. This stuff is so swoon worthy. The colour is called Logwood Brown.
I recently also finished this little sockie:
That’s a TIdepool sock in Shelridge Farms soft touch finger. Very squishy and lovely. I used the EZ afterthought heel for the first time and I really like it. Very comfy and it feels kind of neat on your foot. Can’t really describe it any better than that. It is a shallow heel, but it doesn’t feel shallow in a bad way. Did that make any sense? Nevermind!
Both of these socks are quite a bit darker than they are appearing in these photos though.
Then, in the mailbox today was this:
I won yarn! How cool is that? Pesky Apostrophe who is now Orange Jumper had a little contest over on her blog and I was a lucky ducky winner. Another reader of her blog donated her most gorgeous handspun as a prize. I can’t find a blog for her but if she’s reading this and has a blog please send me a note and I’ll link you up! This is Haldespun handspun Blue Faced Leicester in the colourway ginger. It’s a bit orange and yellow and brown. It’s autumn, all spun up. I want to knit fingerless mitts out of this. Immediately!
Okay, I’m going to go cook some tortellini now and later…find a yummy pattern for mitts for that gorgeous new yarn.
Ooooh. Socks. Scary. (Very nice!)
And your winnings: did you get to pick the colourway? ‘Cause that has your name written all over it.
Great looking socks! Thanks so much for the compliments on the Logwood Brown ….I’ve renamed the colour “Milk Chocolate” since a knitter called me up one day and said “You really have to call this yarn something-chocolate…cause everytime I start knitting with it I think of all the milk chocolate goodies I’ve eaten in my life”….and she was around 78 years old…so that may have been a lot of chocolate memories! Again glad you love the yarn …happy knitting.
Now I don’t feel that alone christmas knitting in October anymore!
Fabulous socks! The Indigo Moon yarn look delicious!
And so does that Haldespun yarn. I love Blue Faced Leicester. It will make wonderful mitts!
I’ve never tried an afterthought heel before. Hmmm…
Hey, that’s my handspun!
I was (ahem) maybe ego-surfing (don’t look at me that way, it’s been a bad week, I needed the ego-boo) (I’m so ashamed!) and look what I found! I am so glad you got it, so glad you liked it – I have wondered for the longest time if it maybe got lost in the mail, and that gave me a sad. I loved spinning that yarn; BFL is my favorite yarn to spin and that was in my favorite color. I am glad it’s in such a good home!