Personal Sock Club Socks #2

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I finished them last night. All I had left to do was sew in the (multitudes of) ends and grab some more black Patonyle so I could knit the second cuff.

Then I remembered that this means I can ‘receive’ my new Personal Sock Club package. Having just sewn in a whole lot of ends of a scrappy sock, I was hoping I would pick a different sort of sock project this time. And the yarn that appealed the most was the purple/black one, which I’d bought in Tapestry Craft last time I was in Sydney. The odds were one in four. I grabbed a bag and opened it…

Yipee! I did a little happy dance and transferred the yarn to a sock knitting bag. These will be the first socks I’ve knit reinforcing thread into. (It comes with the yarn.) Since the yarn is busy enough as it is, I’ll knit them plain, using my toe-up heel flap pattern.

While in Canberra and Sydney I bought these:

I read the Yarn Harlot book at airports and during flights, and it’s sweet and funny. Yarn, too, was excellent travel reading. It was a toss up between Crochet in No Time and another crochet pattern book, but this one won out because it is a UK publication and so the patterns use terms I’m familiar with.

Hmm. I keep buying crochet books, but never seem to get around to making anything in them. I think a personal crochet challenge may be in my future.

I also bought yarn.

Which I kinda have to be a bit creative with my KFYS rules to justify:

1, The Patonyle and Heirloom Jigsaw come under 2.f. and 2.d.
2, The Araucania Ranco comes under 2.e. (I really did believe I’d finish the scrappy socks before I got home and it’s not like I could have gone shopping for yarn on a Sunday or public holiday in Canberra).
3, The Debbie Bliss Pure Silk… I admit doesn’t come under any rule. It’s just that I’ve always wanted to knit red silk gloves and the perfect yarn lay in wait for me under the counter at Tapestry Craft. But the irony is, when I got outside into the sunlight it turned out to be pink, which would have been easy to resist. I went back and exchanged it for purple the next day.

5 thoughts on “Personal Sock Club Socks #2”

  1. The scrappy socks look great – like they came from one ball of yarn (ok, well, two, if you count the black yarn). And nice haul on the books and yarn – agree with all of your reasoning entirely!

  2. Hmm Lincraft in Canberra and Belconnon are open on Sunday, Spotlight in Queanbeyan is open on Sunday and Cassidy’s at both Jamieson and Kingston are open on Sunday. Can’t say for the public holiday, though and it’s best not to risk being without knitting.

  3. I have no idea what Cassidy’s is like, but if Lindcrap and Spotblight are anything like they are in Melbourne there’s not much chance of finding good sock yarn. At least, that’s what I’m telling myself 😉

    Hmm, what is Cassidy’s like? I’ll be back in Canberra later this year.

  4. They turned out so nice. I can’t wait until next week… Spring Break, a whole week to knit uninterrupted. Not that I’ll catch up with you and your progress. Your project bags are starting to appeal to me. I’m thinking of putting my UFOs in bags and one by one finishing them off this way.

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