There’s been some cheating going on.
(Baudelaire, #1, in Fortissima Socka,and Jaywalkers, #1 and 2, in Kool-Aid yarn)
I’m still on the Jaywalkers (and have even started #2!), but the Fair Isle sweater hasn’t seen much action in the past few days because I secretly decided to cast on for Baudelaire on Sunday night. I haven’t even gone to add it to the WIP list on the sidebar, I’ve just been sort of quietly working away at it.
I tried the figure-8 cast on for it as the pattern sugests, and failed miserably, so hopefully #2 will do better on that score. But the lacy pattern is surprisingly easy to memorize, and I’m about a half-inch away from starting the gusset increases. I’m so excited I can hardly contain myself. My first toe-up sock!
The comments on my last post were extremely helpful! Gwyn directed me to Denise’s toe up sock pattern, which I think I may well try instead of the Widdershins pattern, and then Andrea linked to a Miram Felton toe-up tutorial which also looks worth a try. I have 2 pairs of Lorna’s Laces skeins waiting for a plain toe-up sock with a flap heel, and one of these may well be the lucky pattern. Failing that, I’ll see if I can modify the Baudelaire construction (as long as it works) for a stockinette sock.
In explanation of my post title – I’ve been photographing things against my pile of sock yarn (the pile hasn’t grown since the last post, thankfully), because that window has the best natural light in my house. I took the plants out of it over the summer because they were baking in the sun and heat, and a couple of months back I used it to photograph some sock yarn – the yarn never made it back to the stash, and I see no reason not to display it out in the open. And it is at least as colourful as the Christmas cactus blossoms 
Totally with you on the windowsill full of sock yarn! Pretty, pretty, pretty.
I am so looking forward to seeing the Baudelaire finished, actually what I can see…they’re beautiful!
You’ve turned into a sock maniac! The Baudelaires are so pretty but I’m not a toe up sock knitter. Now if you’d like to gift them to me. *laugh*
Marianne – the sock yarn is so pretty there I can’t move it unless I knit it
That’s my current goal, we’ll see how far I get with it.
Twig – Thank you! I think I’ll hang on to these Baudelaires, but I’ll keep you posted
And yeah, somehow the socks have just taken over. How did this happen?
A word of caution on leaving sock yarn on display in direct sunlight: the colour may fade where exposed to UV, resulting in patchy colours when you knit it up.
But it does make a lovely display!