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Finally finished

Ok, so complaining because a large pair of socks took me 7 days is ridiculous. But the first one took two days (a weekend) and the second took 5, so it felt really slow. 

Particularly since I didn't get any time to knit yesterday (Thursday). We're hosting Friday night dinner tonight, and it's going to be 43 degrees Celsius, so we cooked and prepared all the food yesterday, and we are serving cold soup, followed by cold roast chicken, followed by chocolate mousse. 

 The socks were originally going to be all in the top colour, which was destashed by Kris, but there were breaks in the yarn, and I lost 30 grams of it to tangles while skeining in up. So i faded in the second colour. I used by new Signature 2.25mm double points for the first time and I love them. The fabric they are creating is lovely, and the needles themselves are sharp and sort of grippy but still fast. As for the socks, they are the Vanilla is the New Black pattern, which is a top down heel flap and gusset with no picking up of stitches. Fun! I started them at 72 sticthes, and reduced them over the leg to my normal 64 stitches. I thought making an 8 inch leg would take longer, but these just flew by. 

Now, I love the Signature needles, but at the Christmas party someone gave me a set of Hiyi Hiya Flyer Flexible DPNS, so I am looking forward to trying those out on my next socks.

The cats heard we were doing a photo shoot, and got very excited about it!




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