Sometimes I wish I were more like an ant. You know the story about the industrious ant vs the free wheeling grasshopper? Yeah that ant. So here it is starting to turn chilly and I am ill prepared for the upcoming Polar Vortex or whatever they are calling it this year. Admittedly the weather is vacillating between mid 70’s and low 50’s –not in the same day– but I can tell I am not going to deal well with the cold this year.

Last I left you guys I was on the border of Magnolia and wouldn’t you know it–still on the border of Magnolia. I did cast on for a shawl and then realize I didn’t begin to have enough yarn to complete the project. The Birita Faroe Island Shawl calls for a mere 500 yds of yarn and I started with 819 yds. When I finished the first ball I became suspicious and checked Ravelry projects to see others had used up to 1500 yds! I did find another partial ball in same dye lot but ended up frogging anyway. Here is my shawl 2 balls in but still on the lower lace border section of pattern:

The I haven’t finished a project in almost an entire year fired me up to tackle my craft caches. The first of which was in the bedroom. In the wardrobe were several hanks of yarn *to be knit next*, the not yet knit 3rd ball of Istex Einband, a wound into yarn cocoon Malabrigo Sock in Candombe, and some Gotland laceweight I kept casting on and frogging over the years.

First I set the still hanked hanks in the yarn room and decided to just knit all that yarn I loved so darned much I had to wind into balls or what not. The first of the 3 options in closest to me at the moment cache to get picked up was the Malabrigo. There is a very high chance I would whip out a pair of socks. After all according to Ravelry my completed projects for 2018 consisted of a pair of socks & a pair of wristers.

The colors are really pretty and the sock is knitting up easily enough. Not very quickly considering it is mainly plain stocking stitch. Actually I knit the 4″ of rib faster than I did the 4″ of stocking stitch. From Nancy Bush the Gentleman’s Plain Winter Sock with Dutch Heel out of Knitting Vintage Socks book done on less stitches and smaller needles to fit my Lady Feet.

yarny days and knitterly evenings ~Elka