pair #61 is a pair of sparkly christmas socks. yes - i knitted a pair of sparkly christmas socks in august. it's terrible, i know, but only very recently one of the lovely ladies in the knit'n'natter group i'm part of on facebook posted a picture of christmas socks she was just working on and that made me want to make some too. also: now there's another ball of yarn out of (one of) my stash box(es) that was still too big to move to the leftover basket but not big enough any more to make a pair of long-legged socks.
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anyway, the sparkly christmas socks are made from two different yarns from seasonal yarn packs (one from 2013 and one from 2015) by this company. the cuff, heel and toe are from the older pack and the foot from last year's. i gave these to my sister.
i'm very much looking forward to this year's seasonal special - assuming that there will be one... if so it will be announced in the new autumn/winter catalogue which should arrive in september at the latest. i'll keep you posted...
for pair #62 i used Opal Hundertwasser "Der Weg von mir zu dir zurück" 2107. i love how many different colours and patterns there are in this yarn. it's almost like making a scrahappy sock out of one ball of yarn. i made caterpillar socks again. i've put the pattern in the right side bar under "tutorials and guides".
this is pair #63. i've named it "flowering appletree". just like i did for the Dr. Seuss Socks, i used leftover single spun sock yarn in two colourways for these: one of them - the brown/red one - is called "appletree" and the other one - the pink/white/green one - is what's left of a schoppel zauberball called "durch die blume".
"appletree" on the left - "durch die blume" on the right. it turned out that the appletree yarn was not really suited for sock making so i used most of what was left after the socks were done to make the body of my wonderful rose doll:
(body pattern by lalylala; hat pattern by zabbez)
there was just enough left of both to make little socklets. there are still some tiny little balls of the various single spun yarns left and i think i will keep them to make scarves for future crochet dolls...
this is pair #64. the yarn is an old one by opal - "lasst blumen sprechen" (say it with flowers). i've started this pair back in january and knitted past the heel of the first sock. and then all of the sudden i was sick of the yarn... i almost wanted to rip out the whole work and make something else with the yarn but decided to just wait until the excitement would come back. it did - sort of - and while i was not exactly overrun with joy while i finished this pair - i finished it. i think i will like wearing these very much though, maybe with a pair of jeans...
this is what the skein looked like. the collection was from 2011 or 2012 i think. i have managed to get my greedy little hands (although i think i have fairly large hands for a woman of my short body size) on five of the six colourways.
these two i knitted already...
these two are sitting in my stash, waiting to be sockified...
i hope your knitting needles are clinking and your crochet hooks are whirling!