The Power of the Silver Parcel
Knit Love Club shiny silver parcels went in to the post yesterday. I thought it might create some added power for the postal service if I was ready and waiting for it and finishing my first pair of club socks before the second installment arrived was a good incentive to keep me knitting on.
The magic worked and when I got home from work I just had the graft on the second toe to do and a parcel to open. Lickety split and they were done; with these so so soft socks snuggling round my toeses I'm wondering how I managed to take this long to get them finished. Alchemy Juniper is the definitely the most luscious sock yarn I've ever been fortunate enough to knit with.
Pattern: Rumpled by Alice Yu for Knit Love Club
Yarn: Alchemy Juniper - Rumplestiltskin
Needles: 2.5mm DPNs
Started: 22 January 2010
Finished: 24 March 2010
Isn't it a lovely little detail to have the twisted stitches carry on over the toes? I love the depth of texture to this pattern, the twisted stitches and the k4 togethers create wonderful ripples and ridges, peaks and troughs. Alice said somewhere along the line that it reminded her of a Liberty print and somehow that does capture the essence of this for me. A little piece of magic. I think all club patterns will be for sale in due course and this is a pattern I'd recommend for certain, one of those wonderful patterns that looks more complicated than it is, though I would think you do need a flexible yarn to work the four stitches together.
And so on to the second parcel, I don't know that I can ever love another sock yarn the way I love this Juniper but this little number is certainly a delight in its own right:
I did wonder if I might be swayed away from starting the lovely Levens project tonight (well two out of three projects finished deserves a reward doesn't it?) by the excitement of the new sock pattern. It's exciting alright but something tells me that starting a toe-up construction involving a Turkish cast on with an afterthought leg had best be left till the weekend!
The magic worked and when I got home from work I just had the graft on the second toe to do and a parcel to open. Lickety split and they were done; with these so so soft socks snuggling round my toeses I'm wondering how I managed to take this long to get them finished. Alchemy Juniper is the definitely the most luscious sock yarn I've ever been fortunate enough to knit with.
Pattern: Rumpled by Alice Yu for Knit Love ClubYarn: Alchemy Juniper - Rumplestiltskin
Needles: 2.5mm DPNs
Started: 22 January 2010
Finished: 24 March 2010
Isn't it a lovely little detail to have the twisted stitches carry on over the toes? I love the depth of texture to this pattern, the twisted stitches and the k4 togethers create wonderful ripples and ridges, peaks and troughs. Alice said somewhere along the line that it reminded her of a Liberty print and somehow that does capture the essence of this for me. A little piece of magic. I think all club patterns will be for sale in due course and this is a pattern I'd recommend for certain, one of those wonderful patterns that looks more complicated than it is, though I would think you do need a flexible yarn to work the four stitches together.And so on to the second parcel, I don't know that I can ever love another sock yarn the way I love this Juniper but this little number is certainly a delight in its own right:
I did wonder if I might be swayed away from starting the lovely Levens project tonight (well two out of three projects finished deserves a reward doesn't it?) by the excitement of the new sock pattern. It's exciting alright but something tells me that starting a toe-up construction involving a Turkish cast on with an afterthought leg had best be left till the weekend!
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