In Which the Pirate Finally Finishes.

After some months of ignoring them, I’ve finished the green stripy socks! I’m so pleased that the stripes line up perfectly from sock to sock. (I mean, I did that on purpose, but I’m still pretty pleased at how well it worked out.) This is about as plain a sock as it gets: twenty rounds of k2, p2 ribbing, followed by an awful lot of stockinette interrupted by a regular ol’ flap heel, and a star toe with four points. The yarn is Austermann Step in colourway 96 Forest Green.

My original intention with these socks had been to try the Flexi-Flip needles with them, but that totally didn’t work for reasons… primarily that while everyone else seems to agree that a US size 1 needle is 2.25 mm, Addi’s size 1 Flexi-Flips are 2.5 mm. Since then, I’ve acquired a set in 2.25 mm, and as soon as the green socks were done I cast on for a new sock with this Silkie Socks that Rock in the “Walking on the Wild Tide” colourway, which was from their sock club some years ago. I got this yarn only a few months ago, from someone at our local knitting night. (Thanks!)

I’m planning to do something fairly simple again, but with columns of slipped stitches to attempt to break up the pooling a little bit, and an eye of partridge heel for a change. A review on the Flexi-Flips will be forthcoming once I get a little more used to them, too.

This year’s Maryland Sheep and Wool was a whole new kind of experience – the plan had been to go with Mom, but Dad and Michael joined us for the day too. Nothing really jumped out at me as something I needed to buy, but I did drop off the fleece that Carrie and I bought some years ago with a processor who said she’ll have it back to us by mid-October. The only thing I brought home was this picture of the alpacas: