I’m on a roll with this blanket thing. Last night I finished the last strip of the Green Blanket. There was just enough of the ‘ugly green yarn’ to make four strips.

It’s been amazing to watch this yarn, which I can imagine was intended to make a rather hideous poncho or a jumper that would add a 2cm thick green cocoon around a person, and which the beau called ‘manky’, turn into a rather lovely fabric.

I love the way thick and thin yarns do this see-sawing thing. The thick yarn starts to fall mostly on one side, then just when it begins to get a bit difficult to work it suddenly starts falling on the other side and rights itself.

All that’s left to do is for me to sew the strips togther. Let’s hope this roll I’m on lasts that long. I don’t want another UFO of Shame on my hands.

Now that I’ve woven up the ugly green yarn, I have an empty box in my wall-o-stash. But that’s not going to last long. Or rather, only as long as it takes the mail to get from the UK to here.

In the meantime, there is Sock Challenge knitting to do. Yesterday I carefully considered sock patterns and yarn, and two just seemed made for each other.

The Butterfly Socks from Socks Socks Socks, using Jitterbug yarn in ‘marble’. I’ve always wanted to try this pattern, but I’d figured it would take a bit of adjustment because it’s sized for a ‘child’s medium’. Last night I took a punt and cast on the required stitches. Instead of 2.75 mm dpns (because they just broke) I used my 2.5 mms, so the sock should have come out even smaller, but I had a hunch from trying out the Jitterbug before that the opposite would happen. Then add to that my stupidly narrow feet… it was worth a gamble.

And sure enough, they fit perfectly. And they’s soooo cuuuute!