Here they are at last:

And swapped over:

Pattern: Coriolis Socks from New Pathways For Sock Knitters.
Yarn: Fleece Artist Sea Wool.
Comments: I didn’t like the layout of the pattern, scattered in pieces throughout the book. Heels here, toes there, cast-ons and such somewhere else. Surely there could have been a little bit of repetition just to make actually knitting a sock a bit less annoying.

For some reason the stitches that twist around the socks are resistant to stretching on one sock. Not sure why. Maybe I just knit tigher the more I wanted to get the socks over and done with.

It’s the first time I used this yarn. I like it. It’s a little thicker than Patonyle, and has a nice tweedy effect to it.

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In other news, the base square of the Musical Baby Blanket is finally done:

I ran out of black cotton during the border, so I ripped back and redid it in Paton’s Serenity bamboo/cotton. I have to say – nice yarn! Now I need to work out the best way to crochet the notes, decide on a tune, then start churning them out and sewing them down.

Swizzle is nearly done, too. I’ve finished the knitting (though the left front seems a little short so I’m worried I may have missed a pair of rows). Now there’s some side seams and ends to sew, and then a zipper to aquire and attach.

The Froot Loop socks are progressing slowly. I’m afraid that while the stitch pattern started off charming, after twelve repeats I’m over it already. I’m thinking of knitting the bottom half of the socks plain.

But I’ll wait a week or so before making that decision. There are things making me tired and a little fed up lately, and I might recover my enthusiasm once they’re past and gone.

Or it could just be that my attention has been stolen by the new shiny thing in my life: this morning Wondo rang to say my new loom has arrived. If all goes to plan, I’ll be picking it up this afternoon.