Year of Projects: Week 38 & 39

I have an FO! And not just a half FO 😄

My first Stitch Surfers are done, with just the ends to be woven in. I really do like them. 

I started another pair which are more like a variant. I'm liking the idea of it but I think I'll be more appreciative of it when I finish the first sock.

Remember I made my youngest brother a scarf for his birthday but I forgot to take a picture of it? Well he ran up to me, with a big grin on his face to show me he was wearing it. 

He looks so happy, doesn't he?

I decided to pick up another pair of socks on the needles that I had left over from the Cookie A sock club last year. I missed working on the Mint Twist socks. I also really miss working with the yarn. I believe it's Manos del Uraguay. It's definitely going on the growin list of "yarns that must be in my stash".

Last thing! Response for a comment from a couple of weeks ago, the sweater is called Folded by Veera Valimaki (there are some accents on the name but I couldn't get it on my phone).

Year of Projects: Week 19

Another week of knitting done and no finished projects but that's okay with me.

I cast on 2 new projects and they were the only things I worked on this week: the Meadowbrook scarf for my youngest brother Thaniel and the Circe socks for myself with the Anzula Squishy I got last week.

The Meadowbrook scarf is coming along well. And as per usual with a Stephen West pattern, I want to knit another one. I should launch a complaint. His patterns are addictive.  

No more casting on until this scarf is finished and then, depending on the remaining time, I'll cast on for a matching hat.  

I'm leaning towards the Piece Out hat by Stephen West (big surprise), in the same colours I'm using for the Meadowbrook.

Last week I mentioned how the sock knitting bug was starting to itch. So I went to Handknitting Yarn Shop, purchased a set of 1US DPNs and scratched that itch. I'm still working my way through the heel flap. I'm making these socks shorter than recommended due to my "need" of socks.

I got lucky this week. I am loving a skein of MissBabs Cosmic yarn in the Inkwell colourway. It's not a colour that is easily obtained since it's a custom colour for the sock club. No one from the club was destashing it either. So I sent an email to Cookie. Lucky for me, there were some leftover skeins and I'll be getting one of them with my December shipment. I am definitely making socks out of that skein...I just have to figure out which pattern.

I've said it before and I'll say it again: I really need to stop casting on new projects...but it's so hard!