Socks for a Lady

Haha, ridiculous title, I know, but don't these socks look like they should be worn by a lady? Aren't they graceful? The lace and all? PRETTY! And I love purple. It might be my favorite color again.

So... Berlin Muster socks: Finished!! Took me about 2 weeks. Actually it was more like 3 weeks, but there were a number of days in there where I didn't work on them at all, so I'm calling it two weeks.

Anyway, I bought the yarn at the Knit Nook. It is TOFUtsies: 50% superwash wool, 25% soysilk fibers, 22.5% cotton, and 2.5% chitin ("Chitin is fiber from shrimp and crab shells! It's naturally antibacterial!"). There were 425 m of yarn, but I probably used 2/3 - 3/4 of the ball of yarn. So I've got EXTRA! Which makes me excited because I had fun with this yarn.

Pattern for free here. The only adjustment I made to the pattern was that I purled 4 on each round so that I'd have 64 stitches around instead of just 60. Oh also I did a 2x2 ribbing at the top, knit 2, purl 2, instead of the 1x1 that the pattern says. But that was mainly an accident.

This pattern was really hard for me the first few repeats, but by the end, I had gotten the hang of it. It has 16 different rows that you have to do for one repeat, so you really have to pay attention. But it was a nice challenge for me, and I think it is such a pretty pattern.

So, then the Knit Nook had a SALE yesterday too. It rocked. I went in there and spent like an hour and a half trying to pick out what yarn I wanted. Jeez, it was way overwhelming. Like, I should have thought it through a little more beforehand, picked out a project so that I knew how much yarn I needed, and had an idea of colors. But instead I just wandered in clueless and hoped to be inspired. I bought this expen$ive yarn that was marked down 15%, but still was a lot for just about 400 yds, which probably isn't enough for a whole project. So I don't know what I'm going to make out of it. I love the colors and I love them together.

The blue yarn is soooo pretty, and it has all these subtle color variations in it that were hard to photograph. I am thinking about making a sweater, bolero, something like that, but I still need to find a pattern. I might go and buy some cheap-o yarn to do for the bulk of the sweater and then do stripes or something fun with the blue. I have no idea really. I'll probably save it for a while, because I don't want to knit impulsively with such pretty and pricey yarn. My God, I can ramble. Stopping now.

I think I am going to start knitting hats after all. And maybe a sweater. AH that scares me. We'll see.