And they're done. My comfy, cozy, lovely Tesserae socks. I cast on the first sock on the first day of our cruise to Bermuda at the beginning of the month, and knit pretty much only in the evenings when we relaxed in our cabin, and still managed to finish all but the last couple inches of the second sock by the time we were back in Boston a week later. I let them languish in my knitting bag a bit after that, but finished them up at work this week over the course of a few naptimes. And I love them. I love them because they're comfortable as all-get-out. I love them because the pattern was easy but interesting to knit, another part of my ongoing love affair with Anne Hanson's gorgeous patterns. I love them because it's the first time I've knit with The Sanguine Gryphon's Skinny Bugga yarn which is luxurious to say the least. But most of all, I love them because they will forever remind me of one of the best vacations I've ever taken.
Bermuda was heavenly - perfect weather (temperatures in the low-to-mid 70s), gorgeous scenery, lovely people, water that is warm and perfectly clear down-to-your-toes, sand the likes of which I've never walked upon (soft as powder, foot-caressing, and indeed pink!), and just amazingly welcoming and relaxing. We had such a nice time exploring and swimming every day. I even took my first-ever horseback ride (not counting that caped pony ride around the 10-foot ring I took way back in the 70s)! So now I can look at the turquoise and blues in these socks and think of Bermuda's water and sky, the rusty orange and think of sunsets and horses and wild roosters. And that makes me very, very happy indeed.
Project info:
Bermuda Beach Socks
Pattern: Tesserae by Anne Hanson
Yarn: Sanguine Gryphon Skinny Bugga
Coloway: Black Spotted Prominent Caterpiller
Yardage: about 400
2010 so far:
Finished Objects: 12
Yards knit: 3470
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