Can I say MMMMMMMMMMerino wool socks

My friend, Catalina, sent me a few knitting books down my way for me too keep, love getting free stuff.

So I thought, what a better way to say thank you other then knitting her a pair of merino wool socks. This pattern is called the hourglass, it also has garter stitch edge for the heel which makes it sssssuuuuuppppppeeeeerrrrrrrrr easy to pick up those darn heel stitches.

When I was looking through my stuff, I found a shawl that I crochet quite some time ago and never really used it. I thought to myself, Cat could probably use this shawl, she works nights, it gets chilly at times....................why not...............I already had made one just like it.

I also sent her a few goodies, left over yarn from the shawl, at least 3 skeins of quebec handpsun wool, plus the left over of the merino wool, might have enough to make something small with it. Off to the post office I go, stuffed everything in a bag, and to toronto it goes making it's way to Cat's hands.

Cleaning lady's socks

I think the title says it all. When I use to work at the center, now I work from home, the cleaning lady use to come visit me every morning when she was in. From time to time when it was not busy, I use to knit on socks or whatever project that I would have brought in with me that day.

Diana aka "cleaning lady" has tormented me for the past 2 years to get me to knit her some socks. I decided that after 2 years of asking me for a pair..........why not, she deserved them....lol.

Now, this is an original pattern that I will not post on this blog as of yet, due to I want to get it copyrighted first, however, the method that I used to knit these socks were with the magic loop. I have never knitted a pair of socks as fast as these ones before, usually it would take me about 1 week for one sock. These socks took me approximately 8 days to make both socks, so I have cut my production time in half. There were new methods that I have applied to these socks that I have never used before and, I have to admit, they turned out very well.

Diana, you are one lucky cleaning lady, beware, others might get jealous.