![Confession Time with Katie:
Playing Mario Kart has made me a worse driver. As I drove to lunch with a friend, I wished for a flashing star so I could be invincible and drive through everything.
Also, we're eating bagels for lunch because throwing rules out windows is my new favorite hobby.
Speaking of hobbies, I started a Constellate Hat in the colorway, African Violets by LolaBean Yarn. The first Constellate took me nineteen months so surely i can beat that!
LOL. @marz1pan thought I was knitting a sock for someone with HUGE calves!
In writing news, I plan to send a short story before mid-December so join my Inner Circle Email List if you need a dopamine hit right about now.
I hope you have the Monday you need, Crew! I love you!!!!
[ID: Veggie rosemary bagel and tuna salad sesame seed bagel with a purple hat in progress.]
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By now, you’ve probably figured out that I have a bit of a Gray fetish. No, not THAT Gray. Gray yarn. So, I went stash diving to find the right gray for the toes of The Husband’s Gentleman’s Fancy Socks. I found 50 shades of gray (ok, 9) and they are (from left):
Koigu Painter’s Palette Premium Merino
Cascade Heritage Silk
Handwerks So Soft Sock – Milkweed
String Theory Bluestocking – Pewter
Socks that Rock Medium – Stormy Weather
Plucky Knitter Primo Fingering – Elegant Elephant
Lorna’s Laces Solemate – Buckingham Fountain
Knit Pick’s Palette – Mist
MacKintosh Iona Fingering – Senka
I narrowed it down to three I’d be willing to part with and let The Husband pick from:
MacKintosh (cause I’m still ticked at this yarn),
Cascade (cause it didn’t cost an arm and a leg)
Lorna’s Laces (cause these socks are Solemate, and I like matchy matchy).
Drumroll, please……….
The toes of the Gentleman’s Fancy Socks will be Cascade. He chose wisely.
Ps. Check out what other folks are working on at Tami’s Amis
Tags: Gentleman's Fancy Socks, husband, knit, knitting, shades of gray, sock, socks, solemate, yarn
Woah! That is a lot of gray yarn, you have certainly impressed me!
It is good to know that gray yarn is what impresses you. I’ll put that little tidbit in my pocket for a rainy day. :)
Your husband chose a very nice compliment! I love that you have so many shades of gray in your stash. It’s a great color! Very versatile.
I LOVE gray! It matches everything…and I do so love for things to match.
I love this! Gray is my fave color, and now I want to go home and take a picture of my gray yarn as well. I just received a gift certificate for String Theory from my sister for my b-day, and I’m thinking charcoal or skerry. Is pewter gorgeous?
Pewter is really lovely, but depending on what you’re going to do with it, Charcoal might be the way to go if you want something darker. It looks really nice.
I’m a big fan of the color gray
Gray is awesome. matches everything.
looking fwd to your novelette. Sounds interesting.