I hope you all had a fabulous festive break. I certainly did! I spent most of it curled up in an armchair, trapped under a cat at my parents house Oop North. It was was quite blissful and filled with knitting. My mother loved the Jaywalkers in Jitterbug Lagoon I knitted for her present and I managed to extract my dad’s foot measurements from him so I can knit his delayed present socks.
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It’s a three hour train trip from London back to the bosom of the family so I cast on for Cookie A’s Monkey and worked my way through the majority of the leg of the first sock before I got distracted by eating, drinking and eating. They’re the first pair of lace socks I’ve attempted and I love them – the pattern is long but easy to memorise and I get a lot more done when I can’t just abandon them mid-repeat.
The yarn is Fyberspates‘ superwash merino that I got when I had a sock club membership and I love the colours, particularly how they come out in this pattern.
2007 is drawing to a close as I type this and my knitting resolution involves posting more and knitting my way through my stash! Hopefully, the two will work together. Here’s to an excellent and FO-filled 2008!
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