Finally Finished Friday

My Advent socks from Woolens and Nosh is this week's finally finished Friday!!  I'll keep you posted when I wear them to let you know how I liked the yarn, the needle size with it and the amount of stitches.

For now, it is just good to have them all finished and two things with last week's Musselburgh Hat from WIPS 2024!!

  

Unite KAL

I cannot believe that I didn't post here about the "Unite" KAL we started here at PJKnits on January 1st?!!

But, we did and I didn't post, so here goes what I should have posted a few weeks back.

The PJKnits Zoom group on Saturday nights decided to do a KAL with the cast on starting 1 pm Central Time via Zoom.  It is labeled the "Unite" KAL because many of us have wanted for sometime to knit the Vertices Unite and thought this would be a good time to start on New Years Day.  Since Stephen West also has the Textures Unite, we decided to open it up to both of these patterns and to go even further, we were totally ok if anyone wanted to go rogue and just join us on New Years Day. 

I chose from PYS a group of yarns that I purchased many years back at Stitches Midwest at the Yarn Culture Booth, a new to me yarn, Rosy Green Wool Cheeky Merino,  These five colors were pretty much hanging on the rack just as they are pictured below.  I had no idea then what they would be, but I figured some sort of shawl, so I bought them.  Since then, they have been hanging out in PYS.  

Technically, they are a little heavier than finger weight, but I decided to use them.  Also, you will notice, there is not a teal or turquoise in the bunch, but I did think when I decided on them for the Vertices Unite that they would all play nice with a fave item of mine, blue jeans.

Cast on began and section one, I have to say, took much longer than I thought it would -  a couple of weeks, but as I knit on it and our zoom got together on the following Saturday, we were assured by another knitter that had already knit it once, that it was the longer section and our feelings were valid.

My first two colors for section one are the two far left ones in the above picture, the first being Deep Ocean, a really dark navy, and the second stripe being Taupe.

Finally, a couple of days ago, I got to move onto section 2.  Originally, it was going to be colors 4 (Air) and 5 (Peony) above, but once I got the first two rows in, I thought it was a little light, so I swapped out the blue for color 3 (Wood). I wasn't sure that I had made the right decision on my yarn choice at this point, but I motored on with more stripes and in the light of day, I like it, I really like it.

You see, I was letting someone else's opinion of the darker taupe (she is not a fan of brown, any brown) to override my judgement on my yarn choices. Knitters Choice.

I am super excited to finish this section to see what the next section entails!!!

And it is not too late to join us if you are interested, we would love to have you join us!!  Details are in the header of the pjknits Ravelry group!!