RIP Pink Socks

Brace yourselves, knitters.

The first socks I ever knit for myself are gone.



I loved everything about these socks (perfect fit! koigu! cables! my first socks! ankle-high!), and you don't know how heartbroken I am to have them gone. They seem to have jumped out of my suitcase in Amsterdam, where I had a very quick plane connection between Manchester and Stockholm. (Let's not discuss how I also lost one shoe and all my underwear. My thongs are having a party in Amsterdam without me...)

RIP Socks. I loved you well.

FO: Sunshiney Socks

Oh, LOVE!!! I call them my Sunshiney Socks, and they are my custom-knit wool (koigu) socks just for my tootsies! In typical Linz-timing, they're ready just for Spring. Sigh.


But, I love them, and they will bring me lots of sunshine this Winter!


Eye of Partridge Heel, frogged and worked again a whopping extra 3 times to get rid of the holey heels...


Project Details:
Yarn: Koigu KPPPM (still my all-time favourite for socks... but I haven't gotten to any STR yet)
Needles: 2.5mm Addi Turbo Circs, 80mm long
Pattern: Toe-up one one circ, with magic loop, improvised as I went with a figure-eight cast-on, Eye of Partridge Short Row Heel, and stockinette throughout with a k2,p2 rib top.



Lots more photos and details on their Ravelry page.

Socks for me!

You know, it's nice to knit something small, for me. So what better thing to do, than knit up the beautiful koigu from my stash that I have been DYING to work with:





So far, I have one lovely, custom sock. With crazy increases and decreases at my whim to fit my feet perfectly! Hopefully I can do the same thing for the second sock.

Oh . . . I have managed to put my camera "in a safe place", so here are webcam photos. Really -- imagine me in my PJs waving my leg in front of my mac to get some blog photos. Yeah, it's been a silly morning:









Yes, that is an eye of partridge heel you spy -- with short row shaping and everything! Oooh, ahhh.




I think I'm doing a better job updating on Ravelry. Mmmmm, Ravelry.