I got these skeins of sock yarn from Oceanwind Knits last week. Two for me and two for Rob. I'm thinking of getting a little fancier than my usual plain socks and doing ribbing along the top of the foot and the leg on Rob's and some sort of lace pattern in the same places on mine. I know there are lots of pretty patterns on Ravely too so I may go looking for something new altogether.

They are waiting for my 2.00 mm needles to be free of the socks they are currently entwined in. I'm not sure how long they will have to wait though - I have two other projects that need these needles.

I’m wearing new socks today. I finished them last night and they are so comfy. I started the first one in the Calgary airport on our way to Nova Scotia and finished the second one last night. The plain stocking stitch made these the perfect carry-around project while we were on vacation - I could pull these out of my purse anytime we stopped for a coffee and didn’t need to worry about what row I was on.

I used the Universal Toe-Up Sock Formula from Knitty to figure out how many stitches to use and how to do the heels. For the toes I used the Magic Cast-On. I highly recommend this to anyone else doing toe-up socks - it is completely invisible (inside and out) and doesn’t require a provisional cast-on or waste yarn.


I used the tubular bind-off I learned for the Endpaper Mitts to finish off my socks. It looks nice and is really stretchy. It goes pretty quickly once you get into a rhythm too. I haven’t really figured out how much of a tail I need though; I’m so worried about not having enough yarn that I always cut three times as much as I need.


I love this yarn. It feels lovely to knit of course but what I really like is the colour. I just couldn’t resist the skein with its softly muted browns and shock of sky blue. I had no idea how it would knit up. I really like the stripes I got.