pair #48 is made from Lana Grossa Meilenweit "Colorado" 6903. they are just simple socklets with a roll down edge and a crystal heel. they were too big for me so i gave them to my mum.
pair #49 used up almost all of the leftover opal sweet2 & spicy2 "watermelon" that i had already used for a similar pair - also with a cuff drops cuff - for my mum for mother's day.
i'm a selfish sock knitter. i love sockyarn for its colours and patterns. i admit that i buy it mostly for myself. seeing funky stripes and colours on my feet makes me happy and knitting socks out of lovely yarn just to give them away and never see them again makes me sad... i give away handknitted socks only to the most worthy of wearers (or if they pay for it - which means i can buy more yarn) and knowing that i can get two pairs of ankle socks out of one 100g ball of yarn makes everything easier...
pair #50 was something rather special for me. i mean: PAIR NUMBER 50! the yarn is Atelier Zitron Trekking XXL 550. i absolutely love this yarn. it has to be one of my top favourites ever.
i got it for christmas 2013 but didn't knit socks with it until early in 2015. (for some reason i didn't knit any socks during the whole of 2014.) this yarn originally became pair #14:
but for some weird reason they didn't fit at all! i hardly ever wore them because they just were not nice to wear. now i know that it was an unlucky combination of too many stitches and a too short foot. you may agree with me on this one: a sock that turns itself heel up while you wear it if you just change your position on the sofa is not a good sock.
the pair ended up in one of my project baskets because i didn't really know what to do with it. i don't know why i didn't think of simply reknitting them immediately. i ended up cutting the very tip of the toe off to find a working thread from which to knit. i didn't unravel the whole sock, i just knitted from it as if it were a sock blank. i was afraid that some of the yarn on the sole might be damaged from wear but since i had worn them so little that was not a problem. there was just a tiny bit of pilling going on - a little fluff that could easily be removed. what used to be the foot of the sock is now the leg - which is good because it doesn't have such a job to do.
i didn't really know what pattern to do on the cuff or leg - i didn't want to do a simple ribbed cuff and stockinette leg. so i just started with one type of ribbing, did five rows of that and then went on to another one. the entire leg is just a collection of various rib patterns. i like how it turned out.
pair #51 is another pair of ankle socks for my husband. i just now realised that i had forgotten to take a picture of them. they are currently in the wash. i used opal "tiger" 30022 for them. i'll add a picture when they are clean and dry again...
pair #52 is opal sweet & spicy 3 "saffron" 9121 - again. there was again enough left for socklets and because i wanted to play it safe i knitted the rolled edge, the crystal heel and the toe in a beautiful sunshine yellow. the colourway has this colour only twice in the whole pattern repeat - which is almost as long as my foot - and i thought that was too little of beautiful sunshine yellow. this shade of yellow is currently my top favourite colour of all. followed closely by orange-red, deep purple and lilac - so this yarn has it all for me.
pair #53 is opal "ladybug" 30036. it's from an older "save the rainforest" line. i really like socklets. they are perfect for summer when it cools off in the evening or before it gets too warm in the morning. this pair accidentally matches but i have no idea why. there was no knot in the yarn and i clearly started each sock at different points in the colour repeat. it must have been the heel that did it...
pair #54 is opal "happy..." sparkle 9090. i bought two balls of that last autumn and made a long-legged, slouchy pair for my mum for christmas. this little pair is what was left of one of the balls.
sometimes i think i'm weird for noticing or paying attention to that sort of thing: i always thought that this rainbowy ball of yarn looked pretty awesome. before i started knitting pair #54 i handwound the yarn into a ball (yes, i handwind yarn just for the fun of it) and noticed this:
it looks even more awesome! i almost didn't want to knit it...good thing i have another one of these.
for pair #55 i used Lana Grossa Meilenweit "India" 2301. i've used "India" 2305 and the same pattern for pair #37 already; and while i think of #37 as my ode-to-spring socks i think of #55 as circus socks - funny how the colours change the look so much even though the pattern the yarn creates is the same. these socks just remind me very much of the circus...
well, now i've squeezed seven pairs of socks into one post and even i wonder how much i can talk about my socks... i will have to cut back on my knitting time now and start packing up the house. occasionally i think, "it's not so bad, we'll manage in time and it's not so much anyway." and then i realise that what i just thought is bulls**t and i really have to start sorting things out and getting rid of stuff... so that's what i will do now.
happy socking everyone!