Berrylicious Socks:
Blue Moon Fiber Arts STR Lightweight, colorway Berrylicious. Click for project page.
These very simple socks are knit with one of the Rockin’ Sock Club colorways, and their simplicity is just what I need right now. I turned both heels last night. I still can’t believe that it took me about 6 years of really serious knitting before I realized that knitting socks “simultaneously” on different sets of DPNs is most productive and satisfying for me. No more second sock syndrome, no more languishing at the heel turn, no more forgetting what I did for the first sock and making silly mistakes on the second. This process of knitting bit-by-bit has turned the whole sock thing into an entirely stress-free enterprise because I don’t have to keep track of notes or try to remember whatever little tricky thing I did later on for the second sock. YAY STRESS-FREE KNITTING!
As for reading, I recently listened to Divergent and Insurgent by Veronica Roth on audiobook, but the third wasn’t available from the library so now I’m reading Allegiant on my kindle. If you’ll remember a few months ago my kindle suddenly imploded, and when I called customer service, their response was “Well, it’s an old model, and our cheapest one, it’s basically dead. Here’s a $20 credit for your trouble!” Thanks a lot. I didn’t want $20, I wanted my kindle to work! But, since I’m super lucky and have an aunt who is an avid reader, she took pity on me and just gave me one of her old kindles to use, which is super nice. Take that, Amazon! You can’t make me buy a newfangled contraption!
I think I should stop my babbling there. I’ve been working like crazy filling a few wholesale orders for Sweet Sheep so unfortunately haven’t been able to update the shop as much as I’d like. I did, however, get to make some Cranberry Orange Embed soap recently, which smells yummy and tart:
The soap is a cranberry-scented honey soap base, with pieces of Orange Cream whipped soap embedded within. And don’t forget, you still have a few days to receive 20% off your order with the code INDIELUV20. Use it before 11/15!
Linking up with Yarnalong and Stitch Along Wednesday.
Woolen Diversions 
I too knit simultaneous socks. It keeps me from second sock syndrome. I am not one to do socks on circs. I love to knit socks
LikeLike
I haven’t finished a pair of socks, or even an individual sock for that matter, in…crap, YEARS. I start one every once in a while but I lose my mojo about halfway through and abandon it in favor of more shiny things.
Well done you for being able to keep up with two socks on DPN’s at once!
LikeLike
those socks look amazing so far! How do you like knitting two at a time? And that new soap… I can imagine how good it smells through the computer screen- yum!
LikeLike
Thanks! I really like knitting them simultaneously like that. I don’t think I would enjoy the two-at-a-time magic loop method, too many moving parts at once, too much loopy circular cord happening. But two sets of DPNs, I can handle!
LikeLike