To be honest, I more or less lost track of blog-able projects of the last weeks. There was some crafting in between, but not a lot actually sticks out as noteworthy right now. When I said I would lay of the socks for a while, though – yeah, that was apparently a lie, or a massive miscalculation at least.
The second-newest pair are pretty basic arch-shaped socks, more or less this pattern, incidentally the same as my first pair ever, which also got me back into knitting. It was a lot easier the second time around.
The very new, very loose socks:
I love this yarn. It’s 75/25, but cotton instead of wool. I love it the way I think some people feel about Wollmeise. If only it came in more than six colours, I would never need to look for another yarn ever again. So far I’ve chucked it into the wash at 40°, which was no problem at all, it is virtually non-scratchy and I think it would have the perfect drape for a shawl. It is still cotton, though, so there’s not a lot of stretch and it would probably sag like a bitch as a loosely knit cardigan. Still, much, much love. At this point, maybe I should mention that it’s Schoppel Sport Cotton. I’d like to say it’s also dirt cheap, but really it only was for me because I live reasonably close to their factory outlet.
In retrospect, the colour would have been the perfect for a pair of Dr. Who socks. Oh well, I shall call them „stylised Tardis“. There are a ton of Harry Potter-themed socks that, in my opinion, have an even less obvious connection to their namesakes. I like to think of these as well as my own socks as nerd knits incognito.
Speaking of nerdy knitting, I recently discovered the joys of competitive crafting via Nerd Wars on Ravelry. I’m not on any team, so there’s not actually a lot of competing going on for me, but it’s great fun so far. Lots of small projects, which is nice for stash-busting. Because it thus turned out I’m apparently a team-crafter, I also, on a whim, joined this year’s Tour de Fleece. Well, I say joined: so far I spun on four days of… the very many that it’s been going. It might actually already be over, I don’t know. As mentioned, I spectacularly failed at it. Maybe I’ll try again next year with a bit of preparation and more clearly defined goals for myself.
