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The Year Of Socks for Me: Scrappy Socks

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The socks I started last month (and which I worried about reaching the end of the yarn before reaching the end of the toes in my last post ) are finished and ready to go on my feet! This is what I started with:  The two balls on the outside left are the same yarn This is what they looked like when I finished them and turned them inside out to darn in the ends: <gulps> Yes, I got a shock at just how many there were! I didn’t want it to look obvious that I’d used four different yarns so did ten rounds of one of the two bigger balls, then five of one of the smaller, then ten of the other big ball and five of the other small ball until I hit the heel (which is the same yarn as the cuff and first ten rounds of the leg and toe as well as the first ten rounds of the instep) and then continued until I ran out of the smaller balls. I then alternated the larger balls but each time I used them, I started from the other end of the yarn to mix it up a bit (so either started with the end w...
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Mini Archie’s January Furtle Around The Blogosphere

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Furtle (v): to have a rummage or delve into the contents of something Hello! Another quick post from me this month but first a reminder that the link party for Fettle Those Finishes! 2025 is open until the end of February so please feel free to join us.  This month I have mainly been resting and watching telly (Professor T, Dalgleish, The Traitors Australia, The Traitors U.K. (hoping to finish that soon as spoilers are getting increasingly difficult to avoid) while knitting socks. I finished the socks I didn’t manage to finish last year and got the first thing crossed off my Fettling List : Read about them here And have made great progress on the first pair of the year for me: Don’t worry about those holes, that’s where the yarn has been broken off an a new one started and will be sorted once the ends have been darned in.  How it started: How it’s going: Is you absolutely sure you has enough to finish bof socks? (I’m not, no!)   This post is later in the day than usual a...
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The First Finish Of The Year!

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 Care to guess what I’ve finished?!  . . . Did you guess socks? If so, you’re right; if not, what did you guess? These socks are for a friend and will be the only socks I knit for someone else for at least the rest of this year and Mini Archie has his firm face on to prove it *quivers* Yarns are “Red” and “Turquoise” from  Made By Penguins As always with  Made By Penguins ’ yarn, it knitted up beautifully!   Mr Random Number Generator has chosen the yarn for the next socks and I don’t even have to do any winding as it’s leftovers from previous Made By Penguins socks: For mine next trick, you will turn these into socks!  That’s one thing crossed off my Fettling List  and we’re not halfway through the month yet! (The advantage of not finishing a relatively small something last year is that you’re almost guaranteed an early finish if you keep working on it until it’s done.) 
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Let The Fettling Commence!

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A quick post to let you know that the link party for your Fettling lists is now open. You can link up below or on the  main post , it doesn’t matter which as it’s the same link party on both posts.  Hooray, it’s time to link up your lists! You are invited to the Inlinkz link party! Click here to enter
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Fettle Those Finishes! 2025

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  Hello, and welcome to the fourth full year of  Fettle Those Finishes!   It lasts for the whole year so I’ll leave it open until 28th February to give you chance to think about and assemble your list - it’s not something to rush into and can take quite a while unless you’re like me and there’s a tendency to be able to copy and paste from the previous list to populate the new one and only need minor tweaks *sighs*   Adding stuff to your list (or taking things off if you’ve changed your mind about a project) through the year is perfectly acceptable. Encouraged, in fact, as there’s no point in sticking with something you no longer love/need just out of habit. Just make sure anything added is added before you finish it, it’s up to you how you define that. There’ll be a progress link up on 1st July (which I also tend to use as an opportunity to write a new list) and I’ll (try to) remind you in the June  Furtle . The rules Be kind. Be encouraging. Be honest. Don’t pu...