As is much of the middle of the nation...24 states are being side swiped by this nasty storm stretching all the way from where I am down in northern Texas all the way to the tip of Maine. We had an ice storm Monday night into Tuesday....left somewhere around 2 inches of ice on the roads. Frigid temps in the teens and grey skies. This is why I left New England, right?? New England is getting hammered by yet another snow storm, heading for nearly 6' of snow for the year. Yes I'm glad I'm gone, but really folks I'm done with the teen temps and the ice. More importantly I'm done with watching people not know how to drive on ice.
While turning the heat up another notch and donning one of my warm shawls the past few days I finished up a pair of socks over the weekend....Which I should have called frozen lemon rose sherbert, but Lemon Rose will have to suffice.
These are based off of the pattern from knittyspin, Blackrose, found here. The lace pattern is designed to be on the outer side of your calves and is a really ease lace pattern to memorize. I used STR Lemongrass lightweight and did 7 repeats of the lace pattern on the leg. I tend to not do patterning past the legs on socks for me. I find the top of my feet get picky depending on whether I have on shoes or boots, so I generally just do a plain foot.
The bright coloring is definitely brightening my mood while we wade through the cold ick.
I had mentioned last time that I had some knitting resolutions thoughts for the year. One of them was to do a la Yarn Harlot, a pair of socks a month for myself. My sock drawer is pitiful and almost all of my handmade socks are years old and starting to wear thin. So I've made bag up of patterns paired with sock yarn, mostly randomly, there are 11 sets, 10 now left in there. The deal with myself is to make at least 10 pairs this year, but all 12 would be great.
Those cast off and ready to warm my frigid toes I pulled the next one out of the bag...
Madelinetosh Sock, Plum Tree. Pattern: Spring Forward, from Knitty, found here. More springy light colors to help keep the mood bright and light till it warms back up...which is hopefully on Saturday!
Off to defrost the fingers and toes a bit....

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