Monday, January 31, 2011

A gift and a sock

Fran gave me this delightful needle holder on Friday. It was a thank you for hosting the retreat where we all had a blast last weekend. It was a lot of work to make this and I treasure it and the friendship that inspired her generosity!
I knit a sock last week. Clare had given me this yarn in an enabling tactic to get me knitting and it worked...here is my sock and the beginning of its mate. I did try to knit the pattern that came with the yarn but got stymied on one of the directions. Of course it didn't help that I missed the second line of the explanation of the stitch but even when I realized that I was missing crucial information I did not know how to follow the directions...so I ripped the little bit I had done out and made a boring sock with no pattern in the stitches but I think the fabulous colour of the yarn makes up for it.




2 comments:

riona said...

Love that color ... and you are absolutely right, it needs no further embellishment. Sometimes an elegant simplicity is all that is required!

Dani - tkdchick said...

What a great colour for socks! They'll keep your toes warm on cold nights!

A lovely gift from Fran