These first socks are going to be done before the yarn hits it's one year mark: the Rorschach socks.
I bought the yarn on my birthday last year. It's Zitron Wolkenspiel in the Himmelbett Colorway. I don't know why the color is called Four Poster Bed, but perhaps someone at Zitron can shed some light.
What's best about these socks are the heels:
Heel 1
Heel 2 ---[This picture has been giving me fits pulling in, please try to click through to Flickr if it is giving you strangeness as well.]
I've been showing them to everyone and asking what they see. I've gotten some rather unusual answers, no one sees the same thing.
The other socks are yarn from last winter. I appear to be really focused on this first in-first out for the stash, I need to get past that and go deeper into the stash.
These look like the colors of a cold day at the beach. Not the warm summer sky but the colder one that makes you wish you'd brought a cup of coffee while you watch the tides roll in and out.
I'm almost done with sock 1 as you can see but I'm knitting on size 0 (2.0 mm) needles and that's slow going. The heel is pretty, if you want a sense of how the yarn might knit up not in my usual 1x1 spiraling rib.
The yarn is Manos del Uruguay Alegría, which was new late last year I believe. It's a 3 ply in a very light fingering weight. It's a nice yarn. Not a workhorse and I don't remember being especially enchanted with the colors they had--though I was trying to find something that didn't look like *everything* else in my stash so that was probably more of a problem with me than the yarn. They should be warm, comfortable socks. If I can get the second one done.
This is pair 9 and 10 for 2014. I'm definitely on track to finish 12 by the end of the year, especially if I stop only knitting on size 0 (2.0mm) needles...
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