Late Arrival

It’s here! It’s here!

The sock yarn I ordered from the US arrived yesterday!

Someone at USPS had crossed out ‘Canada’ on the package address and written ‘Australia’ beside it. I sent the shop owner a ‘yipeee!’ email and she sent one back. We’re all happy and relieved.

It’s Regia Cotton Surf, 41% wool, 34% cotton and 25% polyamide. The pattern forms stripes of varying widths. While it’s not as pretty or luxurious as hand painted sock yarn, I really like stripey socks and I need cotton socks for summer. Since I work from home, I like that I can go shoeless most of the day, and in summer I usually wander around with my feet bare. But after moving into this house last year I discovered the down side of houses built on concrete. No matter how warm the rest of me was, the soles of my feet were chilly.

I tried knitting socks out of Bendy 4ply cotton, but 100% cotton isn’t the nicest yarn to knit socks out of, or wear. I’ve been on the look out for a cotton blend that wasn’t fair isle ever since.

Of course, it might be autumn before I get through my to-do list… if my hands recover as fast as I’m hoping.

Thankyou to everyone who left birthday well-wishes in the comments. I had a relaxed, laid back day. I ate plenty of chocolate, but somehow never got around to knitting. (I did consider taking my chocolate socks to the cinema, but decided against it.) I guess that means I’ll now have to knit two repeats of the socks and Zhivago top today, to catch up.

3 thoughts on “Late Arrival

  1. happy belated birthday to you! i tried to post yesterday but my pc crashed and decided to stay that way. Hope you had a great day!
    tangelled_angel (who has just upgraded to beta blogger and hence can’t post comments using my blog!)

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