July Socks Done Just in Time

I'm right in line with the BoxoSoxKal2017.   It's the seventh month and this is my seventh pair.  I wanted something that wasn't so Vanilla-y but with a pattern but not a heavy pattern.  I chose the Olympian Sock by Sharon Giles.  The yarn is Heritage Sock Solid by Cascade Yarn done on US 2.

I've always worked better under pressure so I'm thrilled, having a ball with this Kal.  It looks as though I'm actually going to churn out 12 pairs this year.

This weekend I have plans to go through my stash and figure out which yarns I'll be sacrificing for Holiday gifts.  I've made a list in my mind already.  More goals, more pressure but at least I'm knitting gifts earlier this time around. 

BoxoSoxKal2017 Update

Happy July Everyone !

Well we're just over halfway through the year and through the BoxoSoxKal2017.  Is there anyone else in this KAL ?  I'm having lots of fun and enjoying the challenge.  If anyone had said to me five years ago that I'd be making a pair of socks each month well... I would have laughed in their face.   My plan was to stay a pair of socks ahead but so far I haven't been able to.  I still have time.  I was at six pairs at the sixth month now I'm hoping to squeeze in another pair between July and August.   We'll see.

These are the socks I completed in June.  The pattern is Travel Socks by Diane Lyles.
The yarn is Memories by Knit Picks.  The colorway is Spring Prarie done on US 4s. I had the one skein with 220 yards and wasn't sure if there would be enough so I used left-over Cherry Tree Hill DK for the toes.  I enjoyed making these.  This is an easy-peasy quick sock pattern.

We're already going into the second week of July and I've not chosen a sock pattern yet.  I better get on it !  I'm thinking of something a little less vanilla this time.

Enjoy