The first Annetrelac sock is now done, but the pictures are a day or two old. It’s grey and gross today, and not good for photos. I just wanted to showcase the crazy pooling that is going on:

Crazy, spiraling stripes. I like how each stripe is shaded as well, light in the middle and dark on the outside. Hopefully the other sock is at least similar.

At this point, I was worried about having enough yarn for the whole sock.

But I can tell you that sock #1 is completely done, with a little yarn leftover to boot! Sock #2 is up to the first row of triangles.

I’m going to be housesitting for 3 weeks soon, in another city, so I’m taking a lot of knitting. I’m going to take the Annetrelacs if they’re not done by then (I’m hoping they will be though), and my other projects will be…. well, let’s list them, shall we?

• The Dollar and a Half cardi. I started this more than a year ago, and abandoned it about a year ago. I am taking it with me with the goal of FINISHING it. I have 3 weeks to sit and watch the Food Network and knit. I can do this. If I remember right I only have a sleeve and one front left to do.
• The Druid mittens. Those lovely cabled goodies that are on the cover of the Fall Vogue. Yum. Doing these will use up some of my sock yarn stash (I discovered I have enough for 11 pairs!), I’ll be using yarn I got from the Zen Yarn Garden semi-solid sock yarn club in a pinky/maroony colour.
• a small triangular shawl, still unchosed as of yet. More sock yarn, more ZYG, this time in an orangey tencel blend. I think orange will give the lace shawl a nice punch.

I’m not certain yet if I’m going to take another project. I could bring all my ZYG, I want to make the Bacchus socks from the Fall IK with some blue bamboo blend I have, or I could tackle one of the worst offenders on my yarn-in-kilometres spreadsheet and do something with my skein of Helen’s Lace (it’s more than 1 km long! dude!)

I had a boring temp job this past week, and while there I downloaded a spreadsheet of all my stash from Ravelry, deleted all columns but Brand, Yarn, Colourway, Weight, and Total Metres, and added one blank column. I then went through that and wrote down what I want to do with each yarn in the blank column. I don’t have a project for everything, but it was a great exercise, and really helped me figure out what I want to do with which sock yarn. I also found I’d forgotten to add a few things to my Ravelry stash, so I did that and re-printed.

I highlighted yarn that was currently part of WIP in green, and highlighted sock yarn in pink, because that’s what I really wanted to sort out. Maybe I’ll scan it, and we can oogle.