Recent projects

A few things I've been working on the past couple of weeks:

Now that I've knit myself Christmas socks, I thought I might knit Itty Bitty a pair too, since she expressed interest and I had enough yardage for knee highs for her. I think they'll look really cute peeking out of her shearling boots. These were knit in KnitPicks' Felici in Jingle; standard toe, 2x2 ribbing and a short-row heel.

This one is for me:

Awhile ago I was gifted with some Fleece Artist BFL sock (which I'd been longing to try), in the Rose Garden colorway. This sock is knit toe-up with a short-row toe, and reinforced Riverbed architecture (Riverbed architecture is from Cat Bordhi's New Pathways for Sock Knitters, Book One; the reinforced part is my own creation). The ribbing is the Baby Cable Rib from Charlene Schurch's Sensational Knitted Socks.

And most recently from yesterday:

I made some stitch markers out of Swarovski beads, tiger tail and crimp beads. They would have been prettier if I had a crimping tool (I just used chain-nosed pliers). The one on the left is to keep track of four-row patterns (with the "pattern" row being the fourth row). The one on the right is to keep track of increases when I do more socks using the Riverbed architecture. I'd already made myself a set of three--row stitch markers awhile ago, but these were prettier and I was experimenting.