I'm not even showing you a picture of the finished Christmas socks today, because I am super tired of them and I'm sure you are too! It's time to cast on something new.
Okay yes, I've got more socks on my mind, but this time with wool/mohair blend on bigger needles. And I get to pick all the colours.
That's a slight barrier though, because there are so many in the stash! Anything I use for one set of solids won't be available for another, later. And I do need to blend, because none of these cakes are quite enough for a whole sock in the leg length I prefer.
I've done blue socks before, but not with the green accent I used to good effect in green socks a while back. I've knit in this beautiful soft mauve, but in solid only - it might look great with multicoloured stripes in blue and white and orange.
Or there are bolder options:
Emerald green socks with tan stripes, or brilliant yellow with a mixture of green and multi stripes. The green is left over from the aforementioned green socks, which means I'd have yellow left over for stripes on some future pair of socks... including the emerald green ones, if I don't pick them right now.
In that scenario, maybe I'd want to save the tan to use as a solid stripe with socks from this multi-colour blue and mauve. Or I could use a blue accent to pick up the blue of the multi.
But wait, there's more!
There'll be some mauve left over from those socks, and I could use that to pair with the multicoloured blue.
My head is spinning. And I'm not done.
I could also do the mauve with the green multi, or the blue with the blue and orange multi.
sigh.
It's snowing outside today.
Our reindeer, currently not It in the ongoing game of hide and seek with the squirrels, is already wearing a white coat.
I mean, if I can't benefit from working with bright colours at this time of the year, when would I?
Blinding yellow it is, then. Let me try to get a little closer so you can see the halo.
Isn't that gorgeous?
Let the game begin!
Hope you've got a lovely weekend lined up with some exciting new knitting in it, or something else that makes you happy. Thanks as always for dropping by and I'll look forward to seeing you next week!
