Today is my mom’s birthday. Unfortunately she has the winter blues. But now she has a pair of blue socks to go with
I called her last night and had her open the package early. She loves socks that go with denim (she is a little more matchy-matchy than me), so she loved the color. I made them toe up and made them really long (something else she likes in her socks).
This was my first attempt at the Fleegal heel.
I didn’t hate it, but I didn’t love it either. I have noticed that I always wear my socks in the same spot (whether they are hand knit or store bought) and have been trying to figure out a better way to reinforce the bottom part of the heel. I was hoping that this would lend itself to that and although they probably would, I think I want to try this toe-up heel flap instead using a slip stich pattern on the flap for my next socks for me.
I used Cascade Heritage Paints (I think it is color 9872 – I didn’t keep the label or put the info on Ravelry). This is really nice sock yarn and I will use it again. The yardage is also amazing - 437 yards!
Since it has been so long since my last post, I didn’t get a chance to show you my holiday window at the store. As you may remember I saw those really cool yarn trees at Macy’s and wanted to do something similar. I couldn’t figure out what to use as a base for a tree…so I just used our mannequins instead:
Jenn got a really good close-up shot of it with the lights on:
It was hard to get a good picture of it in the window with the lights on…but I have to say that it did look pretty cool. I wish I could have kept them wrapped for next year, but they are the only mannequins we have.
