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Wingspanning

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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

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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!

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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

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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

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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!!

Wingspan, Part I

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I have two skeins of Classic Elite Alpaca Sox yarn that absolutely refuse to become socks. They pool, they gap, they otherwise cry and carry on in all sorts of ways. So, they are becoming Wingspans instead. I finished the first one last night, and cast on the second one this morning. They are, indeed, a pleasurable and addictive knit!

Up Close

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This looks even cooler up close! The colorway for Part II is very different, yet will be cool in its own individual, non-sock way.