It's the little things
Sometimes it's the littlest things that matter most. Waiting for flowers is a wonderful kind of waiting.
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Oh look, more socks
Seems like everything I start these days has to be torn out and begun again. For Ravelry's Sock Knitters Anonymous October Sockdown, I started some toe-up Honeybee Socks, which were cute... ... but impractical. Toe-up socks drive me crazy and I should know better by now than to try them. They never seem to fit me right in the instep and heel. So now they've been ripped out and turned into something entirely different by the same designer, these Komet socks. Much nicer! I've also decided that the rib and cable sock I made was also no good... Ugly ribbed heel... Ugly wonky toe... Disappointing everywhere... I don't know what to do with these. Certainly I'll have to rip them out. But will I have to go so far as to overdye the yarn? I don't know if I want to go through that. Ugh.
Crawling back
Looks like it happened again... I fell off the Internet. Never fear, I'm still knitting. It's simply that many of the projects that I was knitting in the interim were samples that I was unable to show off. At least I have something to show for my time away: yet another pair of socks! Ravelry's Sock Knitters Anonymous and their monthly Sockdown knit-along has inspired me yet again to actually complete a project. I had wanted to knit Cookie A.'s Hedera Socks ever since the pattern was first published in Knitty. While admittedly the pattern is a bit boring, the effect is lovely. I picked up the yarn, some Lorna's Laces Shepherd Sock in Lucky Stripe, on my last trip to Chicago. It seemed a fitting souvenir (as Lorna's is Chicago-based). Not usually a fan of their "Stripe" colorways but the two colors were close enough in tone in this colorway that they blended well in the body of the sock and made nice stripes at heel and toe. I love the way the colo