Much has happened but not much progress

 Still working on the second sock, started another for me and no progress on the shawls. I am attempting to pair up various yarns for 'franken socks' for the rest of the year. First up is a blue yellow yarn that reminds me of either Van Gogh's 'Starry Night' or Dr. Who. I had to size down the number of stitches to start since I'm working on size 2 needles and a thicker yarn.

I got a joking request for a red 'fashion' scarf from someone and then went looking for red yarn. I only found one ball of Comfy fingering in a cranberry red (not enough to do much with) and then the other Tofutsies in the pink/orangey color. I found a scarf pattern that was relatively easy and by the time I got to this point, I looked at the work and all I could see was red marbled meat. I can't unsee it. I'm going to have to put off that project for a while and maybe find a ball of something closer to the end of summer to whip something up.

 

I finally decided to tackle untangling this ball last night. I thought it was Kroy Socks (FX? I think due to the glints of mylar thread in it) definitely a 'copper' colorway. I've searched online but all the listings for that yarn don't list it having a 'metallic' thread in it. Unless it's also a nylon fiber.

I had both ends started because I happened to find both before. So on the left is close to what it was originally and what I had to deal with on the right.That may look like a mess but I was lucky enough to have picked up the end that was from the center and hit the untangled middle of the skein. That helped speed things along greatly and at that point I was about a half hour in of winding it. I started around 10 pm and finished at 11:45. Yes folks, took me almost two hours to get it untangled. But that will be another pair of socks probably for someone else as I'm not so sure about that color for me. It's definitely a stripe and still think it's Kroy Socks but yet again it's likely so old no one has it anymore even listed. I have two balls which is my thinking ahead that was needed for socks.  Those will be fun to make though.

So that's done, I was working on both socks this morning, alternating between sessions on an ipad game. It's April and need to get my knitting projects for Christmas moving along a bit more briskly.

Oh! I discovered on Pinterest a series of lace designs from a 'company' named Gannet Studio. She names them from a random word generator and sometimes they have absolutely no relation to what the stitch looks like.

 This one is called 'Coffee'. None of her stitch patterns are downloadable, she's got them on her blog and a Patreon account so getting them to a pdf format is involved. 

Those larger eyelet holes are from a double YO and then there's a knit 3 together stitch. So kind of ingenious but also kind of complicated. She last updated her blog post in 2018 so not sure if she's doing them anymore even.

This one is called 'Swags' and is derivative of the previous one. I mean, who could  not use more lace patterns right? But on the other hand, it's only half the idea for a shawl or scarf or even a sweater pattern.

She's got dozens and dozens of patterns listed so there's bound to be at least one that's relatively simple for using on a scarf.

So those are my discoveries and accomplishments for knitting. Blankets and shawls are put aside for now.