Thank yous and Snuggly Socks
Two of the nicer things in life!
First of all a big thank you for all the kind and thoughtful comments on my last post; the ME is not something I want to dwell on here as knitting and blogging are great escapes for me but I'm glad I got it out there, it seems more honest and it's helping me already to have done it. Thank you friends.
Secondly, a huge thank you to Knitty in Pink. I brought her back a couple of skeins of Koigu from Imagiknit and the lovely, thoughtful lady that she is she didn't just send me some yarn as a swap (but yum oh yum look at that Kureyon) but she knitted me a wonderful pair of Dashing as well 
- she saw I had them in my sidebar and rustled them up in this heavenly Rowan Yorkshire Tweed. Big thumbs up!
Thirdly the socks:
These went straight on the hoof the morning they were finished and stayed on all day so I think they fall in to the Winner pile.
Pattern: Based on the Garter Stitch Rib from SKS
Yarn: Just under 200g pure undyed Alpaca from The Humming Herd, Cornwall - chosen in the main because of the Cornishness but it is lovely yarn wherever you are from! It's possibly a little loosely spun to make socks the most sensible project choice but I have four more skeins to play with
My favourite part of the whole sock? The garter stitch border on the heel flap. It's the little things that get me!
First of all a big thank you for all the kind and thoughtful comments on my last post; the ME is not something I want to dwell on here as knitting and blogging are great escapes for me but I'm glad I got it out there, it seems more honest and it's helping me already to have done it. Thank you friends.
Secondly, a huge thank you to Knitty in Pink. I brought her back a couple of skeins of Koigu from Imagiknit and the lovely, thoughtful lady that she is she didn't just send me some yarn as a swap (but yum oh yum look at that Kureyon) but she knitted me a wonderful pair of Dashing as well 
- she saw I had them in my sidebar and rustled them up in this heavenly Rowan Yorkshire Tweed. Big thumbs up!
Thirdly the socks:
These went straight on the hoof the morning they were finished and stayed on all day so I think they fall in to the Winner pile.
Pattern: Based on the Garter Stitch Rib from SKSYarn: Just under 200g pure undyed Alpaca from The Humming Herd, Cornwall - chosen in the main because of the Cornishness but it is lovely yarn wherever you are from! It's possibly a little loosely spun to make socks the most sensible project choice but I have four more skeins to play with
Needles: 3mm Bamboo DPNs
Started: 1 December 2007Finished: 20 January 2008
Notes: Despite the yarn starting life not more than a few miles from my parents' home these are well travelled socks having been to San Francisco and back. Once the pressure of them being a Christmas knit was lifted I fell into the gentle rhythm of the simple pattern. I'm fond of this rib stitch as you only need to purl stitches on every other row so it's almost a plain stocking stitch sock but with the fit of a ribbed one. I subbed in 1x1 rib for the top because I used alpaca rather than wool and it is less stretchy. By the by I read an interesting article on alpaca by Clara Parkes in Interweave Knits which makes me crave her book even more.
My favourite part of the whole sock? The garter stitch border on the heel flap. It's the little things that get me!
Comments
Lovely socks and beautiful Dashing! Lucky you!!
Lov the socks too, I really like textured socks in that kind of pale oatmeal yummy yarn :-)
Hope you had a restorative and relaxing break in Cornwall ... and that your flare up is dampening down. I have chronic fatigue as part of the syndrome that goes along with my RA. Am having a flare up too at the mo - a TINY joint in the pads of both feet is driving me daft. But, hey, its an excuse to wear my 'ugly' crocs without the household moaning;)