![CW: infertility
Watched A Merry Scottish Christmas the other day and the estranged brother - sister tension seemed like Enemies to Lovers and I may never stop laughing.
Also, one couple in the film was struggling to get pregnant and tried IVF and I was definitely not telling my tv “Don’t worry, kids, you’ll be pregnant within the hour!” JK. I totally was.
Spoiler alert!
They were. They had a miracle baby the following Christmas before the credits rolled.
End spoiler.
If you’re looking for a book with infertility rep that has a happy ending with no baby, I HIGHLY recommend The Countess Conspiracy by Courtney Milan.
If you have other books with infertility or miscarriage rep, pls drop them below!
I love you, Crew!!!
[ID: got ramen with a friend and was like “oh! I forgot I wanted to leave my onions on for the Gram!”
My friend pushed her bowl towards me and said “Will mine help?” My friends are the best!!!
Two bowls of ramen. One with pretty purple onions on top.
A rainbow scrappy striped tube sock for one of my littles is off to the left.] #muststashyarn](http://www.metzroth.com/katie/wp-content/plugins/instagram-feed/img/placeholder.png)
Pattern: Popped by Hunter Hammersen (I’ll let ya’ll know when the pattern is out.)
This pattern is not super stretchy, so you’ll want to try a sock on after one leg chart repeat to make sure you can get it over your heel. Don’t try it on after just the cuff ribbing. That’s a rookie mistake…that I totally made.
Yarn: Knit Picks Stroll Tonal
These are mostly wool; I can block more room into them. (Please don’t point out that “That’ll block out.” is NOT the voice of reason)
Colorway: Spring
I’m not a huge fan of how this yarn feels, given that I like my socks on the softer side, but the colorway got A LOT of compliments and I do love it when people admire my knitting.
Needles: Started with 2.25mm Sig. Arts DPN’s but the yarn was 1% splitty, and the cuff was kind of big, so I switched to 2.0mm wooden needles.
This is where you realize why I don’t sound more worried. I have a plan.
I know a knitter who is the Jackie Chan of blocking. I knit fine looking socks, and sometimes they go off for a wee vacation and come back looking like movie stars…and if her blocking magic doesn’t fix these puppies, they’ll be sacrificed on the alter of the 100 sock challenge without a second thought because as I said, several people were admiring them.
Ya’ll know I love a Plan B.
Tags: Green Yarn, hunter hammersen, knit socks, knitting, sock, sock yarn, socks, yarn
I’m not going to lie–I love that color, too. I think they look great!
I do hope that your blocking wizard is able to save these socks. I think they’re beautiful.
Fun! It is a nice color. You’re quite a speedy sock knitter!
Lovely yarn, the socks look gorgeous! Hope the blocking fixes any sizing issues :)
They’re lovely! I hope the blocking helps. I’ve knit a couple pairs of socks with yarn that I didn’t love knitting with because they weren’t very soft, but I really love wearing them! Go figure! Anyways, that’s a really pretty colorway. I may have to try Stroll tonal someday! :)
I need a something, anything, in that gorgeous green.
Just snip off a piece of it and that’ll do.
That is just gorgeous.
Love these….I really need to learn how to knit.
These socks look great! I like the way the pattern on the foot tapers down to a point.
I have a question that is not related to this post. I see on your about page that you have entered knit and crochet items in the Texas state fair. I am thinking about entering a few items this year. Did you mail in your entries? How did you package them? Did you label the socks with any pattern or personal information?
I mailed my entries. The only items I’ve included are the item for judging, the form and the entry fee. I mailed my socks in a bubble mailer envelope.
The rules and guidelines are here:
http://bigtex.com/creativearts/handbook/
Good luck! :)