Stripe Obsessed

I've bought many skeins of self striping yarn in the past 6-8 months.

These skeins of HDYarns are my UBER favorite. I want ALL of them.

Yeah, yeah, yeah, I could dye them myself. But I HAVE a full time job and I'm more than happy to support small batch Indie Dyers. Rich & Vanie do great work and I am SURE to buy more when they restock.

I ordered these CupCakes in June, with much anticipation, planning to knit them during our family fishing vacation in July. I had started another pair of cotton socks a few weeks before we left to go "Up North", so I didn't get to these until Monday (or Tuesday) of our vacation week.

 

I snuck in some cast-on time a few days before we left town.

A new 31 bag to carry it with me for the week. I put an "M" on it so that my daughter "C" didn't mistakenly take it back to school.

I can knit a pair of top-down socks in my sleep. These toe-up-with-a-heel-flap socks were dicey.

 

Thank goodness I had several Jack Reacher novels on my kindle. I ripped out the (purple) heel section and re-knit it four times before I got the fit just right.

 

They match my blue toenails! 

 

Finally finished a few days later!

I finally weaved in the ends, washed them up, and laid them out last night

I pay the price for letting things sit.

 I'm pretty lazy and tend to procrastinate. That's how I roll.

Can you see how the sun from my front window bleached out the purple?

 But I love, love, love them!

This is my husband and daughter. Photo taken from another boat on the lake.

I will be linking my Tuesday evening post to Ginny's Knit Along and maybe Tami's blog tomorrow morning.

Later!

M