Scrappy Fair Isle Ribbon Socks

Got to a point that I was frustrated at the bins of bits and pieces of leftover yarns from my sock knitting. So this past weekend had to start cleaning out and get rid of lengths that really were too short to do much knitting....although amazing what you can do with just 2 yards of a strand of yarn. Fair Isle is the answer and hopefully these will be something that I can do for the next months and put good use to the yarns that I would have tossed. Just never know where your next sock will come from!!!!

UPDATE! And then finished the socks that I think came our great…only to deal with those bits of tail. I show a picture of the sock inside out as actually thought after I wove all those tails it looked pretty interesting on the wrong side! So the only thing I think I was challenged by was those darn tails! anyone have a solution to weaving the tails.

And a Merry Christmas! My very creative daughter made me an Advent Calendar!

She participated in an Opal Yarn Swap and collected 25 samples of Opal Yarns! Wow...then put them in little packets she made and labeled them with numbers from 1-25. Ingenious I thought as as I opened the packets I thought of her and her thoughtfulness. This truly was a gift I will remember for ever. The yarn looks to be enough to make up a pair of socks with the addition of a nice solid color will make great stripes. 

Wishing you all a very special Holiday....I certainly had a special one.

Half way thru...looking beautiful

Dec 25 All opened up!