First of all, I finished the first of the Nelderoth socks! I’m quite happy with how it turned out, and think I’ll be doing a version for myself in the near future. I’m a sucker for cables… Since I rarely blindly follow a pattern, I tweaked this one by omitting the texture pattern between the cable panels, and doing a German short row heel. If I did this again, I might use a subtle colored yarn to spice those stockinette bits up a bit, or I might try and find a texture pattern that I like better.
The other thing I finished last weekend was the amagarumi dragon that has been languishing in and out of my projects bags for the last two years. Meet Asea!
Asea means ‘leaf’ in Elvish, and I thought it was appropriate given the color of yarn I used. I love the finished result, but I would never crochet with that yarn again. It had a little thread wound round it for color interest, but it made it a real pain to work with. I had a few yards left after finishing of Asea, and I actually threw them out. Yes, that much of a pain!
Other than those two things, I just haven’t had the time to work on much else. I got the urge to finish things, and went with the two items that were the closest to being done! I need to get the socks ready so that when the upcoming chance to send items back home arrives, I’ll be ready. I still have my large projects more or less in the works, my cardigan and my second double knit scarf. I have a feeling that those will get more time spent on them over the holiday when I have bigger chunks of time to work on them. So, that’s all for now!
Since I wrote this a slight development has come up--I am no obsessively pondering knit plaid. Details to follow...
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