My apologies to the classicists out there but if I have to relate one more thing to the Iliad I am going to curl up into a tiny ball and cry. Also, blogging is great procrastination.
Here's something entirely unrelated to the book-that-must-not-be-named: Monkey socks! And no-purl ones, at that. They're for my mum since she refuses to wear the first pair of socks that I knit her, since they "might get holes in them." I figure if I absolutely overwhelm her with hand-knit socks they'll lose their novelty and she'll actually start wearing them.
Somehow I missed the whole Monkey sock brouhaha (I am always late on the uptake. Always. I somehow manage to find out about all these patterns like six months after everyone decided they were overdone) and never particularly liked the pattern. Then I saw no-purl Monkeys and my life was changed forever. I am madly in love with this pattern. It's perfect for variegated yarn but more elastic than Jaywalkers. I want to knit 353263 more pairs.
For the record, I saw one person comment on how no-purl Monkeys may be the product of latent purl hatred, and let me state that I am probably the biggest fan of purling out there. I just hate reverse stockinette. Speaking of which, I have a leg warmer disaster to post one of these days...
One may be bigger than the other. For some reason my socks have been turning out different sizes lately. Evil wizards.
(As you may be able to tell, I have stopped shaving my legs. Viking Boy is less thrilled than I am.)
It's like a whole different fabric than the original.
Pattern: No Purl Monkeys by Cookie A/Crafty Pancake. That's the Ravelry link, if you don't have Ravelry the original pattern is here. As one would guess, just don't purl. That's it.
Yarn: KPPPM...I keep the ball bands, but the color numbers mean nothing to me so I don't know which this is. Such is the Koigu curse.
Needles: Silvalume #1 DPNs, as per usual.
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