Wednesday WIPs

 

The sock siblings are done. I let them marinate for a few days before I even thought about starting their mates.

Green was up first and I didn't have a great deal of trouble figuring out how much of that green I needed for the ribbing BUT that first color repeat almost did me in. Look at it. It pooled. Instead of gentle ripples I got dots. Big. Red. Dots. 

I had to rip that section out and do it again with a smaller needle hoping to break up the pooling. I was semi successful. I didn't get exactly what I wanted but it was better than those awful dots. 

All that drama took place on the very same day I spent hours trying to figure out how to make buttonholes in a double knit front band. There's several ways and I wanted to do the one where you didn't have to cut and weave in a lot of ends but that didn't happen. I did manage a buttonhole that fits the button so I'll consider it a win instead of a surrender. 

And....someone asked me to formally introduce the autumn patchwork since I forgot to give the details yesterday. It's from Jardin Prive and it's part of a patchwork series that includes, Printemps (spring), Ete (summer), Automne and Hiver (winter). I get them from 123 Stitch. There are many more in the patchwork series and I am so tempted. I have just an itty bit to finish on Hiver and then I just may give myself permission to buy another.