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It took it’s own sweet time to get here, but I finally got my parcel from the Ravelry fiber and sock swap.

Heather from SnerKnits sent me a lovely parcel all the way from Canada containing some bright citrusy superwash merino sock yarn, some merino/possum blend roving and some merino/tencel roving from etsy seller CopperPot, and if that wasn’t enough, she also included some fabulous stitch markers, the kind that I’ve been lusting after on etsy.

The merino/tencel blend is so lovely that I’ve already started spinning it, and it’s just amazingly soft and it’s spinning like a dream.

Thanks Heather!

I was so late finishing my sockapalooza socks that I completely forgot to take photos of the finished pair before sending them across the world to Australia and the lovely Rose Red, who, with her love of reds and shoes could be a long lost soul sister.

I had great fun reading her blog and finding out about her, and as I did last year, I decided that none of the sock patterns I knew about would do the trick, and set about designing a pair of socks for her.

Using Colinette Jitterbug (purchased from I Knit London I followed the basic toe up with heel flap recipe given in Widdershins from last summer’s Knittyand began to make my modifications.

A subtle eyelet line along the sides of the foot and continuing up the leg, joined by another subtle eyelet line from the heel up, and an arrow lace pattern up the back of the leg (for some reason, I couldn’t get the image of seamed stockings out of my head when thinking about socks for her), topped off with a picot cuff.

Lovely.

I’m very proud of these, and delighted that she likes them and they fit (always a worry when knitting for other people who you can’t make try on things).

They look fabulous on her too.

A job well done, I think.

It’s been an eventful few weeks, which is why I’m so chronically late posting about my sockapalooza goodies.

I actually got these socks at the same time as I got the package I posted about previously, but when I emailed my pal to say they’d arrived, I told her I was just about to get a new camera, and that I couldn’t think of a better way to christen the new camera than by taking photos of the stuff she sent.

Only, at that point, I didn’t know it’d take a few days longer to get the camera than I was expecting, or that I’d then run out of time to actually write the blog post in my rush to get things organised before heading off to Crete for two weeks, or that I’d come back from Crete with an ill boyfriend and wind up ill myself while attending a wedding up North.

Anyway, the lovely Amanda from Bulldog Knits made me these beautiful diamond lace socks, and more than that, she inclulded a calendar from her home state, some Ranch Dressing mix (I got addicted when I went to Texas in March) and some truly fabulous sock yarn.

The socks fit perfectly and are really soft.

Thanks Amanda!