No better way to spend the late afternoon than with a cuppa and a sock project. The yarn is Oxford Kitchen's Blue Faced Leicester Sock Yarn. It's delicious and very soft... the dying is wonderful... a semi-solid orange shade called Melba. The yarn was gifted to me by the lovely Emma.
Although I'm not found of oranges, the melba is glorious. The dying on this shade makes it just lovely to work with, especially on a small scale pattern... I'm mixing a yarn over faux cable (looks lilke a little bubble) with a baby cable, so that I have a stretchy cable ribbing. I thought that little picot edge would work well to give it a feminine look
These are my september SolidSocks Knit-along project. Knitting all the colours is going to be a majore challenge for me!
Anyone else get the beehive on the wound up sock center pull balls? most annoying.
Wow, if those are orange socks, you really can't tell. I love that color and the pattern is lovely.
Posted by: Wanda at September 21, 2008 10:38 PMI often put my center-pull balls inside sheer nylon trouser socks-the ones that come in the little plastic containers in US drugstores. This seems to hold the ball together. As the yarn gets used I fold the top elastic band down so it holds the ball tighter.
Posted by: Nancy at September 21, 2008 02:48 PMI love that soft color! THAT is an orange I could learn to love. :)
Yeah - I get the beehive all the time. Why does it happen?
Posted by: Anne at September 21, 2008 12:37 PMLovely colour, Polly! Is the pattern your own?
Posted by: Helen at September 21, 2008 10:20 AMI think that your "orange" socks are looking really good. I often get a beehive - really annoying but I don't know how to fix it.
Posted by: Dianne at September 21, 2008 12:30 AMThat is a lovely colour and the socks are looking good too!
I've never had a beehive (yet!)
Posted by: ling at September 21, 2008 12:22 AM