Two Down

Another week gone in the 52 Pair Plunge challenge and I have managed to get myself back on track by completing not one, but two pairs of socks which have both flown the nest.

Orlando the Marmalade Cat socks are all finished and have been sent to their new home...




and a fab odd pair of Karenina Socks which have now gone on tour with the p/hop team.



So, two pairs down, only 50 to go. I had better get back to my knitting!

Flying the Flag

I have been really looking forward to the World Cup, so when I saw this brilliant Yarnissima pattern I knew I had to track down the yarn and knit a pair for my beloved, which is exactly what I did...



Aren't they fab?! They are knit in Regia Nation Color which has now been reinvented as Regia World. The red, white and blue screamed 'patriot' and it was only after knitting them up it actually dawned on me that rather than flying the Union Jack he would be waving the French Tricolore.

I rushed out and bought something more appropriate



and in order to cover all bases...







Come on England!

Less Haste, More Speed

I can't believe we are already in to the second week of the 52PP and I have acheived the grand total of half a pair of socks. It's a very pretty sock though.

Sneaky peek...



I am knitting these for a friend in exchange for a skein of Wollmeise. Dangling Wollmeise in front of my eyes will make me do pretty much anything, except maybe intarsia. The pattern is Rumpled by Alice Yu, better known as Socktopus and the yarn is Eidos by The Sanguine Gryphon in the colourway Pyrrus and it reminds me of a certain fictional cat...



I love Orlando, such beautiful books.

Fools..

It is better to keep your mouth closed and let people think you are a fool than to open it and remove all doubt - Mark Twain

I have signed up to the 52 Pair Plunge. The challenge is to knit 52 pairs of socks in 52 weeks starting on 1st June 2010 and I thought it would be good to record my progress by starting to blog again. Any cheering from the sidelines that you are able to offer would be most welcome.

I love knitting socks, which is just as well!

A sneaky peek of a work in progress:



These are the Karenina Sock by probablyjane and are a charity pattern for p/hop. They are nowhere near as complicated as they look and knit up surprisingly fast, but you don't need to tell people that, let them think you have laboured for hours.

I will be back with an update and hopefully some finished pairs of socks