knitting in the dark

This sad Pomotomus of mine has been sitting in the mending pile for more than a year… I don’t quite know when or how the hole appeared. I found it coming out of the laundry one day, but it’s all better now!

I think it was the Yarn Harlot that said something like: when a sock needs darning, she says ‘darn’ and tosses it - I think it was in At Knit’s End - does anyone have a copy handy to confirm this? My copy is in Seattle. But there’s no way I’ll be throwing these babies away; this particular pair only had about a dozen outings before this hole appeared. Darn!

I used up all the leftover Yarn Pirate from those Pomatomus to make some baby socks when one of my father’s employees had twins last spring (the other yarn is from my zebra stripe Jaywalkers):

so I found an odd partial ball of grey Koigu left over from my Endpaper Mitts and used that. Hopefully it will be a little more sturdy than the 50/50 merino/tencel… if the Koigu wears through I suppose I could break out something with some nylon content. I have one in grey that wouldn’t blend quite as well but would certainly last!

On a side note as a follow-up to my last post: my WEBS order arrived Tuesday this week… so it took about 7 business days from the time I placed the order until the box arrived at my apartment. And the colors are such a welcome change from the normal blues, greens, and grey found around here! Look at this retina-burning orange (Trekking 145):

And five skeins of this beautiful deep red Ultra Alpaca destined to be (yes, another) sweater for me this fall:

Now I just need to finish the sleeves of my current sweater project and the foot of my current sock-on-the-needles so I can use these lovelies!

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