Meltintalle's Closet

...but I did spend the better part of three months dithering over binding this pair off because I didn't want to rip back my short ribbing to have enough of the original color to finish the socks and then I couldn't find the yarn I'd intended to use.

But the year is almost over and it's silly to put things off especially when nice warm socks could be worn to make your feet cozy. (And I got more sock yarn for Christmas.)

• 1 1/3 skeins Herrschners Baby Yarn solids; light yellow


• 1 skein Herrschners Baby Yarn solids; white


• 2/3 skein Herrschners Baby Yarn solids; dark yellow


• size J hook

...my math worked!!! Or, at least, it didn't leave me with 7/8ths of an afghan... I made a slight miscalculation with the foundation chain that left me four stitches shorter than my estimate, which in turn made it not as wide as I'd intended, which I fixed by adding a dark yellow border (since I had plenty of that color left over from the first afghan).

There's not much difference between the two, really...

• 1 2/3 skeins Herrschners Baby Yarn solids; light yellow


• 1 skein Herrschners Baby Yarn solids; white


• 1 skein Herrschners Baby Yarn solids; dark yellow


• size H hook

I like the pattern in this one. It's very simple since it's worked up in double crochet, but you get the nice variety with the alternating color blocks. I got the yarn as a kit and since I worked to a larger gauge than suggested I have slightly less than half the yarn I started with...which means if I work the dark arts of arithmancy and use a bigger hook I ought to get a second afghan with the remainder.

But 2/3 is just enough more than 1/2 to make me very nervous.