Advent Calendar Socks 2014
Time to get back on the blog horse! I have lots of FO pictures piled up just waiting to get posted.
My friends Knittist and Skein over at the Where We Once Knitted blog (which is mostly in Finnish but the advent calendar posts are also in English) hosted their annual scrap yarn sock advent calendar. This was only the second year but I’m sure it’s going to be annual. :)
The idea is to knit as many rows as the date says (1 row on Dec 1st, 2 rows on Dec 2nd and so on, until Christmas Eve) with a color given in the instructions on the blog. And the instructions are the fun — and often surprising — bit, and can be interpreted as freely as you like! Last year's was straight up striped sock but this year, they gave the option to do stranded knitting on some days. Of course, I had to up the ante and knit stranded every day. In the end, these ended up a collection of my favorite things knit into sock form. I'm particularly fond of the three foxes which were the only duplicate stitched charts on the socks.
On Ravelry: My Favorite Things (Advent Calendar Socks 2014)
Pattern: Scrap Yarn Sock Advent Calendar by Anna Johanna in Where we once knitted
Yarn: Main color: 315 m/345 yd of Katia Olé Socks Arequipa in color #103, contrast color: lots of sock yarn scraps
And this year’s instructions for the sock stripes…
Dec 1: Favorite album cover, Ray of Light by Madonna (turquoise)
Dec 2: Stash size ~16 kg (yellow)
Dec 3: First GI search result that is not me is this lady (orange)
Dec 4: Nearest artwork is a BW snail print (white snails)
Dec 5: My mother’s maiden starts with N (neon green)
Dec 6: White and blue from the birth country flag (flag hearts)
Dec 7: According to the test, I’m the color purple (roses)
Dec 8: My SO’s favorite color is black (cats)
Dec 9: One childhood memory is eating strawberries at a strawberry patch with my cousin (strawberries)
Dec 10: Color from a Christmas carol, Rudolph the Rednosed Reindeer
Dec 11: Favorite tree/leaves: birch (spring green leaves)
Dec 12: Walking/biking route (blue bikes)
Dec 13: Entered “white” in the reverse acronym generator (Stormtroopers because we had a Star Wars marathon)
Dec 14: Second favorite hobby is spinning (sort of wood-colored spinning wheels)
Dec 15: Favorite superhero, Doctor Who! (blue, obviously, because TARDIS)
Dec 16: RGB color picker gives me green (elephants, completely randomly)
Dec 17: I’m an Earth Horse in Chinese horoscope (dark purple horses)
Dec 18: Random Wikipedia article is Ściejowice, a village in the administrative district of Gmina Liszki, the coat of arms which is gold and white on green (golden clovers)
Dec 19: Favorite flower (coral red flowers)
Dec 20: The opposite color of these socks is dark reddish brown/brownish red, (foxes!)
Dec 21: Favorite animated character is Totoro (white)
Dec 22: Home town sports team is JYP (black owls)
Dec 23: Favorite constellation Pisces (purplish fish)
Dec 24: Pick a color from the comments on the blog… yeah, sort of. I just wanted green space invaders. :D
