2015 has arrived!

I reached the television by 4 seconds before the stroke of midnight.  I raised my glass of cranberry-raspberry juice with with the household who had managed to remain awake and went upstairs to my room to get ready to start knitting my Victorian Birdcage socks by Cat Bhordi.  I've have never actually knit anything by her before but I've had the Sweet Tomato Heel book for over a year and have only glanced through it.  This should be interesting.

I love the yarn so there's no issue with that. I'm going cuffdown and hopefully I'll have a few rounds of ribbing before I go to bed.

I've been working on my Plain Ol' Strippy socks on my commute to work.  By doing this I've

1. met 2 litttle girls who seemed to be on their way to becoming the best of friends despite just meeting each other for the first time.
2. Given people directions to The Purple Purl where I bought my skein of Trench Coat by Turtle Purl
3. Met a bunch of knitters via TTC
4. nearly frozen my fingers off because I just had to finish the row before I put it in the bag and somehow I knew that I would have shoved stitches off the needles by placing the unfiished rows
5. knit from one colour change after the heel to half way through the cuff and 1 sock and about to start the ribbing of the cuff for the 2nd

After the cuffs are done for both socks, the heels have to be added and then they will be all done and I'm going to be sad because I have no more self stripping socks to knit while commuting.  I think I have to go to a yarn shop and buy another skein of yarn and/or find another Indie dyer online selling self stripping yarn that is merino/nylon and no stellina since I have never been a fan of sparkly anything.

I ordered my first skein of Gynx Yarn yesterday morning.  Unfortunately therewas no self stripping still available but I chose a variagated skein called Mulan in Strong Sock.  I almost immediately recieved the notification that it was being shipped.  I was shocked with the speed.

And now I'm tired so the VBC (Victorian Bird Cage) is going to go back into the bag and will be worked upon when I get up in the morning.  Good night and happy new year...and I'll hopefully remember to put up progress pictures tomorrow..