Colorful Booties and Socks

It is the Year of Colorwork, but mostly what I've done so far is produce a few colorful items!  I've been making this baby bootie pattern for years, mostly from leftover sock yarns.  This particular yarn is what remained from last fall's Flamewalker Socks.  That these booties stand up all by their jaunty selves makes them particularly appealing.

These are Crazy For You socks.  They haven't told me yet exactly whom they are crazy for, but I'll let them ponder that for a while.  It appears I may have caught a bit of Knitting New England's Tangerine Tango with all of these orangey colors!

Five Chakras With Atheist Purple Stripe

Here are the Seven Chakras socks, with a small change that hasn't stopped amusing me since I contrived it earlier this week.  I'm glad these are finally finished - they had their own project bag for a couple of years, and mocked me endlessly from there.  

Wingspanning

Just finished off the Wingspans and thought you might like to see them in action, with a little help from Kylie.

Here they are lounging about.

Tserious Tsecond Tsock Tsyndrome

Yes, this is indeed one sock with two sets of DPNs beset upon it. You can see at the top where I've started the second section of yellow next to the orange. Its mate is long finished, and you can probably guess why it's taken me so long to start the second one. The pattern is Seven Chakras, and it is lots of fun but completely insane.

Springing Into FOs!

The recent bright, sunny weather has inspired me to finish a couple of projects (and think about many, many others yet to begin!!!). These socks are Mica, and if you look closely you can see the silver sparkles. They appear to be strangely shaped just sitting here like this, but they look pretty normal when worn.


Here are the finished house slippers for my mom, made with some old stash wool, no label.


Slightly more progress on this latest pair of socks as well!

Blurry

So I seem incapable of taking decent pictures lately! Despite that, today the Gavyn sweater is blocking. I think it might benefit from a quick spin in the dryer later, just to fluff it up a bit. I've also started on a coordinating hat for the mom.

This is a slipper in progress for my mom. It's the only other close-to-FO I have to show, and March is almost over! Hoping I'll be more prolific in the coming weeks!

Snippets

I have several projects in the works lately, and wanted at least to give you a glimpse of each of them since I probably won't be finishing any soon. This first one is a little alpaca/cotton sweater for the son of a friend. I've had the yarn forever and this seemed an appropriate project for it. If I have enough left over, I may make a matching hat for his mom!


Here is the colorway for Wingspan II. It's really out of focus but I think that's OK for color viewing.


This is a new pair of socks, and I'm using the awesome wooden sock needles that Neuro gave me for Xmas. They're the perfect length for socks, very pretty, and great to use as well!!