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FO Friday - Sock Arms


Sock Arms is a fairly simple jumper, knit bottom up with seamless set in sleeves. there are a few things that make this very special to me..

The sleeve yarn was  dyed by Dani - from Halfbaked Handyed for the Richmond Knitters Christmas party. So 20 of my closest knitting friends have the same yarn. I am quite thrilled about how even the stripes came out, which is partly a testament to Dani's skill as a dyer.

The light grey body yarn was dyed by me. It's the last of the 1.5 kilograms of yarn I bought in July. I was very surprised to  use it up so quickly.

The main thing that makes this special is I only knit it out of the house. I took it to Christmas, and then on our road trip to Halls Gap, a wine tour to the Yarra Valley, to Queensland, Monday Night Knit Night, and finally to Ballarat. 

It took me exactly a month to knit it, and to go to all those places. I will say that there are some split stitches, and I actually had to sew up a dropped stitch on the back. It's the pay-off for knitting in the car at night, in breweries, when having raucous conversations with friends.

Funnily enough we took the photos not in some far off place, or on an exotic road trip, but in the park closest to my house, where I spent a lot of time during lockdown. 

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