Gentleman’s Sock in Railway Stitch

Taking pictures of socks in ones feet is difficult.  Plus late night and poor light but look at the loveliness.  Just look.  I knit the mate in 2 days! In part because my MC yarn ball was starting to look smaller and I panicked that I might run out and in part because I wanted them on my feet.  Also, well, it was the weekend.  The two together again poorly modeled:

a pair of beauties

I adore the stripes so much.  I have been long admiring striped socks on Ravelry and finally conquered my fear of jog {not applicable in the heel} and multiple ends to weave in when done to take a baby step into the land of striped socks.  Couldn’t be happier.  Some of my absolute favorite pairs are

• Sigrun’s Grass & Straw
• Pleximo’s End of Year Socks {made with leftovers!}
• Before sunrise’s The sun and the sky socks
• plus all those Noro Stripey Socks.  Okay not all but hot diggity are they pretty.

I also admire the striped shawls that are out there and will probably break down and knit one sooner or later 😉

On the knitting front I pulled out the bag of yarn I received in the 7 skeins yarn club which introduced Kate Davies’ Buachaille and cast on for the mittens last night.  I am making decent progress and really enjoying working with the yarn.  It is sheepy smelling but not the least bit scratchy, has good body without being weighty if that makes sense, and is proving to be a joy.  The pattern not so much.  She suggests that we change color dominance on front and back of mitten which flies against everything I have been told in the past 40 some years of knitting.  That makes for a bit of slow going-switching which hand holds what yarn.  Plus the yarn tangles that way so I need to spend some time untangling.  Furthermore, having now knit something that will end up in my most beautiful knits ever category, I am oddly not loving it.  I suspect it will be a while before I am loving anything I knit.  For the curious the most beautiful knits ever consists of these socks, midnight tam, and my poor shawl that is now awaiting repair.  Interestingly enough all 3 projects have a yarn with reddish purple cast to them.  I might have to find more yarn in those colors and see if my favor is easily garnered by something so superficial….

yarny days and knitterly evenings~ Elka