Guess what came in the mail today? July's Rockin' Sock Club package and it's such a good one. Ready for some coloured goodness? Read on ...



Not one but two skeins of delicious yarn!


The first one is the club colourway: Firecracker. This month is a lightweight and full of orangy reds, purples and all those lovely deep colours in between. There is a little section of rich, jewel toned fuchsia that I just love. The inside of my ball band says "Captain Kidd Flashlight".


The second skein is a random colour of Blue Moon Sock Candy. A yarn I've been wanting to try (I've actually got two skeins already for another project - it just hasn't gone very far yet). My skein is in the colour "Sunlight". I think it looks really good next to all the deep purples in Firecracker.


Tina's notes are all about summer and gardening and eating beets and generally feeling rooted in the earth, ourselves and our knitting. She also makes a nice discussion of contrast and stepping outside one's colour comfort zone. Oh ... and she talks about heels ... beautiful, sexy, fantastic sock heels. I love a sock with a nice heel (it was one of the deciding factors on my knitting Flabella) and both this months patterns have truly fantastic heels.


Pattern number 1 is Dusty Corners by Linda Welch and the heel on this sock caught me right away. It's so elegant and flows beautifully out of the leg pattern.


Pattern number 2 is My Heart Beets for You by Ann Hanson. I love the delicate pattern flowing down the leg and across the foot. I like both patterns this time around but I think this is the one I will knit first. It's organic and delicate but not at all fussy.


Oh ... and the heel ...


... a beet. Perfectly placed to hide out in the back of your shoe. An earthy little secret just for you. These would be fun socks to wear with clogs (I really should own some clogs) so you could show off your beets.

But wait! There's more!


An extra pattern (from a few years back) to go with the Sock Candy. If I can scare up another set of needles I'm going to knit these up as soon as I can. I'm still breaking in the new flip-flops I got last year and a pair of these little things will prevent my sandals from wearing holes in the sides of my feet while the leather softens up.

And lets finish off with a gratuitous picture of the super cute mini skein. It give me a nice idea how the colours will mix when knit up.

Guess what arrived in the mail Tuuesday night? If you're in the club and still waiting (and don't want the surprise to be spoiled) don't click the "Read More" button. If you're too anxious to wait or want to see something sublime, please click on.


Meet "Sweet Pea". Isn't she lovely. So subtle and quiet and so, so girly. How about another picture?


There are such delicate shades of green and yellow and pink in this yarn. I love it. Here's the mini skein - you can kind of see the colours mixing.


According to Tina's notes this yarn was inspired by a flurry of Blue Moon employees who are about to become grandmothers. For this reason the patterns also include child and even bootie sizes. Too cute. Inside my ball band it says "pookie" and others have a wide variety of other cute pet names for wee ones (buttercup, Sweet Cheeks, Princess etc.).


Both patterns this time around are for anklets and as soon as I saw them I knew I was going to be knitting the Swing Set socks. They're so simple and sweet. I don't know how I will wait until my needles are free to knit these. Sometime soon I'm going to buy a whole bunch of (matching*) 2.00 mm sock length double-pointed needles so I never have to wait to start a new pair of socks.**

*So when I break one I don't end up with a partial set.

**I'll also need to invest in a much larger Works-in-Progress basket.

How about a bit of colour to start the weekend?





Bluemoon Fiber Arts: Socks That Rock Mediumweight in My Wild Irishgirly (Rockin' Sock Club, March 2010)