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<\/a><\/p>\nAs you can see, it was pouring. Absolutely soaked, and I spent most of the day doing my best impression of a cat fallen in a well. It put a bit of a damper on my plans to take some traveling sock pictures — it was just too wet. But I walked, and I got to wear my fancy robes, so I am sure you will all bear up under the disappointment.<\/p>\n
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LETTUCE SOCKS<\/strong> MOM’S SHETLAND SHAWL<\/strong> VINTAGE VELVET KNOCK OFF<\/strong> There’s a few other mostly-finished May projects: namely a tank top in a linen\/cotton\/rayon blend I picked up at Maryland last year, and a beautiful pair of Selbuvotter gloves for my dad. But the tank top isn’t quite satisfying me yet, and the Selbuvotter are a Father’s Day gift, so you’ll see both of those later.<\/p>\n I’m taking a tour tomorrow of the Library of Congress, so I will try to get a few traveling socks to make up for the rainy fail of my graduation day. We will make no mention of the fact that tomorrow’s forecast for DC is… rainy.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Are we really done with May already? Yikes. At this rate it’ll be Rhinebeck season before I’m ready! May was a busy month. I had two sisters graduate from college, one with a bachelor’s in nursing, one with a master’s in education. And then? I graduated! Behold, one Master of Library Science: As you can … <\/p>\n
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\nPattern<\/strong>: Thuja Socks
\nYarn<\/strong>: Blue Moon Fiber Arts Socks that Rock in Lettuce Knits
\nNeedles<\/strong>: US 1\/2.25mm
\nNotes<\/strong>: Sadly, I finished these too late to wear for Easter, because the colors are perfect for that, don’t you think? This particular skein of STR came from Lettuce Knits in Toronto, which I visited when I flew up to see my best friend J last summer. The color is named for the shop, so it seemed like a very good souvenir to me. I knit it up in my standby Thuja broken-rib stitch that I gravitate to for and promptly packed it away with the other socks for the summer. I did take this lovely picture of the eye-of-partridge heel first:
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\nPattern<\/strong>: Shetland Triangle
\nYarn<\/strong>: Malabrigo Lace in Cactus Flower
\nNeedles<\/strong>: US 5\/3.75 mm
\nNotes<\/strong>: Written up here<\/a>.<\/p>\n
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\n![\"Vintage](\"http:\/\/farm4.static.flickr.com\/3366\/3564816850_1e74829238.jpg\")
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\nPattern<\/strong>: Vintage Velvet
\nYarn<\/strong>: Muench Touch Me in Burnt Orange, 3 skeins
\nNeedles<\/strong>: US 8\/5.0 mm
\nNotes<\/strong>: Written up here<\/a>. So excited to finally have this done for myself!<\/p>\n
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