December | 2009 | autumnblossomknits

Happy shortest day of the year! My Christmas knitting is done and in the mail. Two knit gifts were made this year, one for Bill and one for my brother. One of those people is more likely to look at my blog before he gets his gift (Hi Ad!) so I”ll put one picture up now and the other one later.

I made my first socks! The yarn was gifted to me by Frivilousfluffy with a note saying she hoped I would use it to make my first pair of socks. That was last year, before Christmas. Finally, a year later, I’ve done it! My first pair of socks are complete, they fit people’s feet and are even the same size!

My first socks!

I used Noro Kureyon yarn and the pattern Thuja. it was also my first time using Noro and well, hmmm. I don’t know if it is a yarn I would be able to fit to my projects easily. I’m trying to get away from my single color projects and into something more colorful. This is the kind of yarn I would use with a stranded project so that the color would change as I knit around or back and forth with a solid yarn too. I also loved Jared Flood’s Noro scarf pattern and may do that with the final skein of Noro.

[I had a Christmas stress rant here, but I deleted it. You really don’t need to know, I think you are here for pretty pictures of my knitting. So, here ya go.]