{"id":1098,"date":"2006-10-28T23:16:02","date_gmt":"2006-10-29T03:16:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.sarahsthreads.com\/journal\/2006\/10\/socks-hot-socks-and-christmas-stuff\/"},"modified":"2006-10-28T23:16:02","modified_gmt":"2006-10-29T03:16:02","slug":"socks-hot-socks-and-christmas-stuff","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.sarahsthreads.com\/journal\/2006\/10\/socks-hot-socks-and-christmas-stuff\/","title":{"rendered":"Socks, Hot Socks, and Christmas Stuff"},"content":{"rendered":"

Remember a couple of weeks ago<\/a>, when I mentioned some entrelac socks that just weren’t working out? Well, I ripped back and tried again in stockinette, and that didn’t look good either, so I temporarily abandoned those. Instead, I cast on for these<\/a> two Sundays ago:
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\nThis is that luscious merino-tencel blend I bought at Ellen’s 1\/2 Pint Farm<\/a> at the fiber festival last month, and the pattern is from there as well. I love the way they turned out, and they were a really fast knit!<\/p>\n

And literally, just as I was hiding the last end, the mail truck pulled up. And what was in it but my Hot Socks swap package from my pal Camilla<\/a>! Yes, I got this lovely package all the way from Denmark:
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\nThere’s two skeins of lovely blue cotton\/wool blend sock yarn, some very interesting looking cocoas, dark chocolates, a book of Hans Christian Andersen stories to share with Carrie, and some pretty little bangles for Carrie to wear. The cocoa is basically chocolate on a stick, which you put into your mug and pour hot milk over – I’ve never seen anything like it, but I can’t wait to try it! I’m also really excited about the solid colored sock yarn, since I seem to be on a lacy sock kick lately. Thank you, Camilla, for such a lovely package!<\/p>\n

Unfortunately, some gift knitting – both Christmas and otherwise – needs to be accomplished before I can cast on another pair of socks. In the meantime, I’ll have to go in search of the perfect lacy (or cabled?) pattern to use my pretty blue yarn for…<\/p>\n

Speaking of Christmas gifts, I have 11 gifts completed and 4 more so close it’s almost ridiculous to consider them unfinished. (I need to go buy two sets of 30″ shoelaces and they’re done.) There are 6 more gifts in the works, and then I may try to fit one or two more in there if I have the time. By Thanksgiving, anything that isn’t done, reasonably close to done, or is more than a day’s worth of crafting time to do is not getting done. That’s what Amazon is for, right?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Remember a couple of weeks ago, when I mentioned some entrelac socks that just weren’t working out? Well, I ripped back and tried again in stockinette, and that didn’t look good either, so I temporarily abandoned those. Instead, I cast<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1098","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-knitting"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sarahsthreads.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1098","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sarahsthreads.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sarahsthreads.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sarahsthreads.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sarahsthreads.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1098"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.sarahsthreads.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1098\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sarahsthreads.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1098"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sarahsthreads.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1098"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sarahsthreads.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1098"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}