A few meetings passed by as I worked on
a pair of Feather & Fan toe-up socks, from Wendy's pattern, yielding:
I used just under half the skein to make these (small foot!). Unfortunately, I think I've decided they are about an inch too short; survivable, but not going to be my favourite pair of socks. I may have to see if there's just enough more-than-half left in the skein to do another pair a bit longer :-)
Knit on 2mm needles, these are fairly fine socks -- fine enough to wear in leather lace-ups, which means they'll be part of regular office wear.
Oh, and there was the question of whether I was attracted to the colourway because of the resemblance to our cat:
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I used just under half the skein to make these (small foot!). Unfortunately, I think I've decided they are about an inch too short; survivable, but not going to be my favourite pair of socks. I may have to see if there's just enough more-than-half left in the skein to do another pair a bit longer :-)
Knit on 2mm needles, these are fairly fine socks -- fine enough to wear in leather lace-ups, which means they'll be part of regular office wear.
Oh, and there was the question of whether I was attracted to the colourway because of the resemblance to our cat:
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