Knits

A cause for celebration… I turned the heel on both the Falling Leaves socks this weekend! Hurray! The end is in sight! Okay so I have to do the legs on both, but it has taken me forever to get here.

Since I’m doing toe-up (and this is only my second pair of socks ever), I was a bit worried about the heel. I did it one at a time and the second one came out better - much tidier since I’d developed my method of knitting in the wraps better. I hope these stretch a bit because they seem a titch too small right now.

Falling Leaves stitch pattern on the in-step — Sole stitches

This past weekend saw me sitting outside and knitting on these socks. The weather was fantastic. On Sunday The Boy and I went to Blenheim Palace and had a picnic and walk around. We went through the hedge maze and butterfly house. There were too many families w/ little children rushing through the small butterfly house while I was just trying to enjoy looking at the butterflies and take a couple of pictures. I should’ve taken a picture of the plaque telling you what butterflies were in there!

I think I’ve convinced my mom that she can bring over an obscene amount of yarn for me if she sticks it in a space bag and sucks the air out. Now to just finalise the giant list because I cannot afford everything on it. Obviously she will bring me other important imports from the states like chilies and things for The Boy. Oh and those books I ordered.