Thursday, January 20, 2011

clickety-clack...

Could 2011 be the year of knitting?
Many of the things on my To Make list so far are knitted things. My first finished project for the year is a knitted thing. Or things: my Through The Loops Mystery sockalong socks are complete!
As these are my first handmade socks, I'm yet to work out how to get a decent photo of my own feet, but these socks are rather nice. I'm looking forward to the cooler weather rolling around so I can actually wear them!

It seems the sock bug has properly bitten - I've cast on a pair of Monkey Socks in a rather frighteningly bright colourway, but I think (I hope) it works when the pattern is stretched as it will be when it's worn. Since taking this picture about a week ago, I'm now about half way through the foot of the first sock, so I'm making some serious progress!
To provide a bit of variety, I've also started a shawl, which I'm crocheting out of an enormous cone of laceweight yarn that I ordered from WEBS along with at least three other shawls worth of laceweight yarn. I clearly had a one track mind when placing that order! I'd better include at least a couple of shawls on my To Make list this year...

3 comments:

Sue said...

Your socks look great. You need some sock blockers so you can pop your socks on to take a pic! The shawl looks pretty so far and you seem to be going full steam ahead with all your knitting!

Leonie said...

Oh your knitting looks great. So happy your mystery socks are finished you took them on at such a busy time, it's great you will be able to wear them on cool evenings now :-)
Love the green of your Monkeys, hang on I started Monkeys straight after the TTL sock too! Snap :-)
Here's to a year of successful knits for you. Good luck!

midge said...

they are serious socks. you are a knitting legend to tackle that pattern. and i lurve ♡ the colour