I’m trying to be a good girl, and actually give a little word-space to all the stuff I’ve been too lax to blog up proper in the past few months. To that end, I present Part the First: SOCKS.

January Socks: Knit up in a very, very soft yarn hand-dyed by some lady in Portland, OR. The colorway is called Hawthorne Street, the pattern Leyburn. It’s actually sort of “quilted;” you can see the little cris-crosses in the photo. In order to finish them on time, I made the leg a little shorter than I generally like. But overall, they are great. Very cozy and bright.

March Socks: Skipped February, as it’s really too short for socks. For these, I was literally recreating a pair of socks I knit in 2010 that I’d shrunk a bit too much for comfort in the wash. Madelinetosh sock in Ginger, pattern Drunken Bees. If anything, I like these even more. Despite its rather complicated appearance, pattern is a cinch to memorize. These are squishy and wonderful, and I’m so glad to have them back.

April Socks: This pattern had been hanging out in queue for awhile, as had this particular ball of Cascade Heritage. I love this yarn. It is inexpensive, hard-wearing, and still somehow soft. Great stuff. The pattern wasn’t too complicated, but reading is really the greatest. I cast on to the wrong needle size the first go-round, like a jerk, and had to rip about 3 inches of the first cuff. Otherwise, love.

May/June Socks: At last! I am not completely selfish, and do in fact knit for people other than myself. Like my grandfather, for instance. These are for him. Sock body knit in Pagewood Farms St. Elias (my first time knitting with 100% BFL), and contrast bits knit in some leftover Araucania Ranco. The pattern is Paul Atwell, and is a really simple seed-and-gull pattern with a four row repeat. It’s a nice masculine pattern, but a little too mindless for the acres of fabric one has to knit to make ManSocks. More cable twists, plz. If I use it again, I’ll go up a needle size and use a sportweight yarn.