Orange yarn, good friends (and two finished projects)

As everyone knows, I try to keep as small a stash as possible. It's not that small, it fluctuates between 15 and 25 kilometres. The other day at knit night I announced that I had decided I needed orange socks, but I didn't have any orange sock yarn. Kris piped up "I've got orange sock yarn". Sonia announced that she had orange sock yarn - Collinette Jitterbug, a discontinued yarn I adore and Kate said she had some that she had ordered one day when she was not feeling well. I pointed out that it was very nice that they all had orange sock yarn, but that was their orange sock yarn, and I am a big girl who can buy her own yarn. Sonia then decided to give me her orange yarn - not one but two skeins of Jitterbug, which was once my favourite sock yarn, but has been discontinued.

It's the perfect shade of orange, and knit up beautifully into Cookie A's Sake Socks. I had put off making these socks, because every knit stitch is twisted and there are cables on every single row. It took me exactly a month to knit them - but I also made Leon a jumper in that time, because I couldn't work on these socks while watching TV, or when out and about. At times I wished I had chosen a simpler pattern, but the finished results are worth it.

By weird timing, I finished both the jumper and the socks on Saturday afternoon. No pictures of the jumper yet, we are having a heatwave and Leon would rather not put it on to take photos when it is 36 degrees.   

Thanks for the yarn Sonia, it makes these socks extra special.