If 'im indoors wants a sock, I'll have to have more sock yarn. (This is what I tell him. There is, in fact, enough sock yarn in the house to insulate a small igloo.) I tell him to get over to the Wool Warehouse, where they happen to have a sale, and choose his colour/s.
This is what he chose:
and I decided that he ought to have more socks (which, of course, equals more yarn). So I chose this for him:
- not too different from his choice - we don't want to frighten the horses.
But, as noted above, one thing really does lead to another:
I just got a few extra things - there was a sale, after all.
All credit to the Wool Warehouse - the bag of swag arrived the day after I ordered it, beautifully packaged.
Apart from his lordship's sock yarn, I also got a few balls of plain sock yarn for me. I want to make some of the fancy socks from Cookie A's
Sock Innovation. There is a
great review of the book on the WEBS blog. You need to scroll down a bit, past all the waffle. Sadly, all the socks are top down, so not ideal for me. However, there is very good section on sock design, including pattern placement, which I think will be a massive help if I want to adapt the patterns to make them toe-up.
Best yarn of all is lace weight yarn - skinny (technical term) yarn, skinny (tt) needles = right up my street. I couldn't help myself:
I've been wanting to make "
Frost, flowers and leaves" from "
A Gathering of Lace" for ages and this yarn looks like just the ticket. The original yarn was Shetland lace weight and required 16 skeins at 205m each, a total of 3,280 metres (which seems like an awful lot). Anyway, this Drops lace has 800m/100g, so I ordered 5. I don't want to be running out of yarn with three inches of the border to go.
Kate being Kate, I started to research the pattern. I looked at Ravelry, the
errata from the original book (which aren't needed because my copy already has the corrections) and various blogs.
One blog I came across has a very detailed description of all you would ever need to know. Imagine my surprise when she came to talking about attaching the edging:
I wish I could find the blog on which I found UPDATE: Check out this great post from Knit the Knits, which has photos of the edging technique – basically you take your dpns and some waste yarn and work an entire chart repeat, then use that “sample” repeat as a base for starting to attach the edging to the live stitches that make up the body of the shawl.
She actually links to one of my own posts! I feel like I'm that kid who's holding a book with a picture of herself on the cover, holding a book with a picture of herself on the cover, holding a book... you get the idea.
And yes, I have started "triple F" and the sock for 'im indoors but all that will have to wait until the next post, when there will be actual knitting content.
I leave you with the Saturday back field, on a Saturday for a change: