Thank You to everyone who stopped by and left a note about my Lenten Rose socks. And now on to the next pair... :)

I bought this yarn last December, eyeing it every time I looked at my stash. When the Spring IK arrived in the mail, it was put aside for a month. Just wasn’t ready for all the spring looks – except for the socks. An issue with two amazing sock patterns! I love Eunny Jang’s Entrelac Socks - I’ve never tried entrelac, so those will definitely be a future knit. (With much thought about what two yarns to use.) The moment I saw Roza’s Socks by Grumperina, I knew the pattern would be a perfect match for the minty Brooklyn Handspun Signature sock yarn in my stash.

This Signature yarn is so soft – love the tight twist and comes in a generous 480 yards. I’m using Lantern Moon five inch ebony 2.25 mm dpns from Knit-Purl (they only show the 7 inch on their web site, but at the time they were out of stock and said they had the five inch sox stix, so I opted to try them out.) I prefer knitting socks with dpns, but I always find it hard casting on all those stitches with out twisting. (It’s probably just me, but the needles bounce and twist when I cast on dpns.) Lately, I’ve been casting on all the stitches to a circular needle and then transferring them to the dpns.

Solid, minty colour, plays well with this beautiful pattern.

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Savoring every stitch.

Pattern & Yarn: Lenten Rose Socks - Petals Collection – Sundara Yarn (100% superwash merino wool, 350 yards, 100 grams, “Lenten Rose”, 1 skein)
Needles: 2.25 mm Blue Sky Alpacas dpns
Notions: included 20 inches silk ribbon, cut in two 10 inch strips

Did you get your Cherry Blossom? I’ll be celebrating spring with some of this yarn in silk lace weight which will arrive in April. Now I just have to find the perfect pattern.

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Winding a skein and knitting until I need another allows me to savor the project and amplifies the process of creating a sweater. But my preference for winding yarn as I knit challenged the progress on Ariann last week. I finished the first skein Tuesday. The rest of the week I couldn’t find the time or energy to wind up more yarn so late in the evening. All I wanted to do was to sink into the couch and knit. (A new sock with the ribbing complete connected to approximately 400 yards of yarn was what I reached for each night.)

Ariann waiting for the weekend…

^{natural beauty - occasionally I run into a fleck of straw}

To make up for last week, I wound up three skeins of Beaverslide this morning. A weekend of good knitting ahead…

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