Sock Saga

So the sock saga continues....

I have two pairs finished but I'm in a bit of a quandary because the dye job on the first pair is still not satisfactory. Then the lady who is getting them for Christmas popped by today and there on the coffee table in my living room sat her socks! I didn't draw any attention to them and gently just dropped a knitting basket that I was sorting through on top of the socks and hopefully she didn't notice a thing. So as I sit here tapping out this post I have a pot of dark grey dye brewing.

The socks are not in yet but they are soaking. They will be going from dark forest green to dark grey and I will have to embellish them to purdy them up and bit.  I have an idea for that... add in a little orange embroidery and voila. They will look awesome when I'm done.

Meanwhile socks number 2 came off the needles at 12 midnight last night and so I am working on a little side project that may have something to do with Christmas socks in the end but not sure. Socks number 2 are awesome.

Teapot tried them on and liked them so much that he confiscated them and so they will not be winging their way across the country to my sister and her family.Instead she and her husband will be getting nice little gift baskets full of yummy stuff. Actually I am kind of relieved about that because I was getting down to the wire (and actually over it) on timing for Canada Post to get my parcel to them in time for Christmas. This way it will go in the mail first thing tomorrow and would get down east in time for the big day.

So the little side project that I got caught up in this morning and that I spoke of in the previous paragraph came into fruition quite spontaneously since in the last few weeks the two cats have discovered my laziness. Back in the fall when I did my cleaning and moved the house around to accommodate the new loom I had taken the lazy man's attitude and pushed a bunch of small balls of home spun/hand spun yarn into a bag without sorting through the mess. then I had some left over silk with was meant to go into a baggie and get put away in my stash. This did not happen and as I said the cats discovered my laziness and decided to play. In the bottom of the basket that I had poked everything into was a bunch of baggies of fibre from a workshop I had done two years ago and had never been properly put away either. When the cats discovered my basket of goodies sitting on the floor of my studio, all vestiges of order melted into kitty chaos. So today was the day, the day of days to organize that basket.

The first hour was spent pulling apart the many small balls of yarn and untangling them, and then reballing them and organizing them into baggies of similar colours. Then I took all the little baggies of fibre from the previous year's workshop and out came my drum carder and I decided to blend multiple colours and fibres to get a mish-mash of roving with mixed up fibres.

The rest of the day was spent spinning the mess of fibres together. So far things are looking civilized and somewhat pretty. I'm spinning fairly fine... so not sure if I will use the resulting yarn in a shawl or maybe I'll put several singles together to make a nice sock yarn. We'll see how that turns out.

Now that I have the hang of turning heels I am anxious to try out other sock patterns. I have bee perusing the many patterns that litter my pattern books and have settled on a pair of dress socks that are unisex.... they look so pretty in the book and somewhat simple so I will give that a try next. I still have five more pairs to finish before Christmas...

So with that in mind, I must be off to spin a little more before bedtime... for tomorrow I knit!