Salutations!
It’s wonderfully warm here today even though it is overcast and a little drizzly. The cowbirds are congregating on the fields in large black flocks and moving like a giant wiper from one end to the other to nab tasty insects. This morning I enjoyed a short dove concert as I meditated. It seems that we are all anxious for spring to get here.
The forecast is for cold temperatures to return this weekend, but I am grateful for the respite from winter.
Today I’ll share my work in progress (WIP). I’m knitting socks, another stash-buster, using size 0 double pointed needles and fingering weight yarn from KnitPicks. The colors remind me of a lotus flower that my husband and I saw while we were in Japan, so I’ve decided to name these “Lotus Socks”.
The pattern, called ‘Butterfly Garden’, is also from KnitPicks and I believe it’s free on their website.
I like the open cable that runs along the length of the instep. It’s not difficult. But don’t look too closely because I’m afraid I might have messed up a little.
The yarn is their Hawthorne Fingering 80% superwash fine highland wool, 20% polyamide, in the colorway “Fremont”. My husband gave me several skeins of the fingering wool for Christmas in 2016 and this was one of them. I don’t mind knitting socks. This was the first time I tried a toe-up pattern and I think I like it much better than knitting from the top down.
I only spend an hour or so a day on knitting, so I don’t expect these to be finished any time soon.
originally posted at annettezimmerman.com
