They're coming along quite well, but they're not the socks I was planning on making.
I've got several skeins of yarn I spun to knit into socks and intended casting on one of those, but DD2 had other ideas and badgered me yesterday, even going upstairs and choosing some yarn!
To be fair to her, I'd promised I'd knit her some socks ever since I made several pairs for her sister before she went off to Uni last autumn, so these are overdue.
The yarn's nothing special - some Regia Flusi Monster (or something like that) - bought several years ago on sale. I'd made a pair of socks in the same yarn (but a different colour) for myself, and didn't really like them. I think the yarn's aimed at knitting socks for children as the non-turquoise colour repeats aren't very long, but DD2 seemed to like it, so there we are.
Unfortunately (for me), I'm now not going to be allowed to get on with any of the other projects I've got on the needles until these are finished. Last night, she sat with her crochet and told me that she was making a cowl and "you carry on knitting my socks"! This morning, just before her school transport arrived, she said the same thing, so I think she's expecting these to be made inside of a week.
Oh well, I've got other things to show off, once I've done some finishing and blocking so I suppose knitting these socks gives me an excuse to avoid the dreaded sewing in of ends!
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