so apparently I missed the 10-year anniversary of Welcome to Hell on June 5th???
Thinking about doing a "Happy Late Anniversary" stream with the voice actors, would you guys be into that?
In the meantime, uhhh... here's a gif of a shot from the upcoming W2H2!
My Charmander socks are worn out but I can't bring myself to throw a cute Charmander image away, so I made a few cuts and turned one into a little sleeveless top for my Charmander plushie.
Well, it's not the best fit. But he seems pretty happy with it!
Another way I sometimes like to recycle sock material is for making bean pouches inside a plushie. The thin stretchiness is pretty good for it. As long as there's no holes!
What an intensely enjoyable knit! I've never done so much colorwork before, and certainly never with 3 strands! What a challenge, but also highly engaging. These socks felt like they took no time at all! They're also quite soft and pretty darn warm, so I'm very excited to add these to my closet come fall & winter. Thank you to Oakwood Knits for a fantastic sock design!
Like the first attempt, I tracked my daily progress, but I started doing so after I caught up to where I stopped from my first attempt, which took half the time to do this attempt!
These still need to be blocked, and I have a set of sock blockers on the way, but I didn't want to wait to share because I just am so pleased with them. I learned a handful of new things making these, namely continental, to hold the secondary color, and how to better tension strands of color. I knit these both at the same time across two circulars, and the little onion* skeins of Palette actually made it so I could use only one skein at a time for both socks! I did make a little ball for each sock for the third color rows, however. But ultimately, it worked out great. I also did Eye of the Partridge heels and toes, because I know my feet and those are the spots that need the most reinforcing, and I also added in a single row of purls on the top at the toes because I like how it looks on socks.
Bonus: the start of the spring socks, since I missed the KAL for them and was so jazzed by the summer socks I want to knit more!
*I don't know of they're really called onion skeins, but I can't remember if they have an official name and they look like onions to me, so there you go