Sheep On My Stuff

Yarn used: Essential by KnitPicks, in Burgundy. Needle size: 2.5mm.

Ta da! I have a finished pair of ankle socks. The leg length is perfect -- 4" seems to do the trick, even though it looks far longer than ankle-height on the needles. I am quite pleased with them, even though I had to rip back parts of the second sock twice. Both times were a matter of symmetry, which is something I don't normally have to do for the plain socks I make, but becomes more important when you're working a pattern of some variety.

Anyway, now that these are out of the way, I have two other pairs of socks to finish and a shawl to bring out of hibernation. The timing couldn't be nicer on these socks, though. It's cold today, and I am happy to have a finished project and a warm pair of socks on my feet.

Well, the ankle socks from last time turned out... badly. Badly enough I only knit one sock and then gave up. So poor Douglas doesn't get to model a finished object as well as the socks in progress. She protested (bleating at me as I tossed out the failed sock, and then bleating louder and more indignantly as I revived a newly-found pair of socks), and so I have brought her back to model a pair of red socks in progress:

Yarn used: Essential by KnitPicks, in Burgundy. Needle size: 2.5mm.

Douglas bleats that she's happy to be back, and promises to convince me to model the socks in a slightly more interesting fashion when I have them finished.

It's a pretty standard pattern -- 2x2 rib down the leg for four inches, then one of those heel flaps where you do s1 k1 across and p across the next row. Ribbing continues on the top of the foot. Toe is kitchenered.

I actually found this pair of socks in a closet, with about 2" done on the second sock. I was immediately overcome with the need to finish the second sock, so despite the fact that I have two other pairs of socks in progress -- not to mention a shawl, dammit -- this one got bumped to the top of the queue.

Two other pairs of socks in progress: one of them has been resurrected from the knitting queue, where it's been langushing a while. It's a simple pair of socks, this one for SheepLad. Made of a brown "mouline" yarn from Regia, it's an attempt at recreating his favorite pair ever of handknit socks.

Yarn used: Regia 4-ply mouline in brown. Needle size: 2.5mm.

Small Ty Sheep returns (from the post on Current WIPs, which are not so current anymore), bleating insistently that she didn't get a finished project picture, either, and therefore deserves another shot at the spotlight. Since I like to keep my flock happy, I went ahead and posed her with SheepLad's socks-to-be. (Sock-to-be?) We'll check in with her again when I've made some more progress on the socks.

After a few projects with 2mm sock needles, 2.5mm feels huge. And to think I used to work exclusively on 3mm Inox dpns. :) My last pair of socks -- no picture yet -- is another pair of ankle socks in a white/black ragg yarn from Regia. I think that one's on 2mm needles, but I'll need to check again when I'm taking pictures.