Halt!

There's a Jaywalker in our midst!

As you know, I finished the fabulous Monkey socks the other day.

You don't know, however, that I finished hubby's blue socks Sunday night. Pictures soon!

So, what's a girl to do when she's got brand new sock yarn and not much else on the needles? That's right! More socks for moi!

Last week I made something to display in the store as a sample. When I brought it in, Steven said for payment for making it, I could pick out a couple of things from the store. I picked the needles I borrowed to make it and a skein of Austermann Step Sock yarn in colorway 13 Holz (wood).

I love the colors in this! I knew from working on hubby's sock that the yarn would stripe in beautiful long and short color progressions. This time, though, since my sock has more contrast in colors, I wanted something that would play up the stripes so they wouldn't just be plain old stripes running on my legs and feet.

Enter the Jaywalker pattern written by Grumperina! Now, this is a pattern I've been tossing back and forth in my mind for months now. Should I make them? Everyone and their brother has made these socks, which made me kind of leery of knitting them. I guess because I didn't want to seem like a bandwagon jumper.

And also, because really, I hadn't yet seen a yarn that really said to me, "I want to be Jaywalker socks!"













But this yarn did. Despite the fact that when I cast on for them yesterday, I ran into a few problems (which were my own fault - I was in a hurry and had no business trying to cast on for a pair of socks at that time.) Anyway, yesterday afternoon I finally sat down with some time and patience and started them properly. And knitted. And knitted.

You know how sometimes you find something that you really really like and it just captivates you? Entrelac is like that for me.


And so is this sock. I love how the stripes are playing out. Some large, some quite small.

At the rate I'm knitting on this baby I expect to have my Jaywalkers done by next weekend!

Well, maybe.