My stealth knitting is coming to an end. As soon as it is, it is GAME ON for new knitting. I can. not. wait.

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Superwash BFL in “Cactus Flower”

Superwash Merino in “Marmalade”

So one good thing about these lazy warm mid summer days is it gives me good opportunity to play with color on roving. I’ve just put a bunch of new stuff into the shop, including new for me, Superwash Blue Faced Leicester. I’ve spun a bit of it up, and am now knitting with it (socks for Brandt), and I’m really liking it. It’s a bit more rustic to spin than my all-time fav SW merino, but still, so nice.

Currently, I’m in the middle of 2 big stealth deadline projects, but if I wasn’t, I would be on the Tour De Fleece bandwagon SO fast! I have a sweaters worth of superwash merino that I am super itchy to start spinning up. It takes me forever to spin it, because I like it to be very fine, and I’ve got a pound and a half to go! Maybe this will be this years Rhinebeck sweater? A girl can dream….

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FinallyFinallyFinally! These socks took forever, but I guess when you only work on them once in a while, that’s what’ll happen! At the beginning of June, I picked these up to take to knitting, because, well, they were portable and I didn’t have to think about it. Something clicked while I was working on them, and suddenly, all I wanted to do was finish them already. So I did. I powered out a leg and heel and other leg in no time flat.

These are for Brandt, who loves them, and when the weather turns will wear them alot, guaranteed. I’m modeling them in the above photos, but you get the idea.

I used my basic sock recipe, toe up, short row heel, 3×1 rib throughout. I love the magic of ribbing, but boy did I ever regret it when I got to the leg. In the end I loved knitting them anyway, and will do it again.
I knit them in my Vesper Sock Yarn, in the Hellfire colorway. I stole a skein from the first dyelot ever, I loved this colorway so much. Ravel the details here.

Also! Sign-ups have been up for The Vesper Sock Yarn Summer Club. There are still a handful of spots left, and they will be available until the end of next week, when I ship the July club out.

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