I have 6 little parcels of yarn patiently waiting for their turn to take part in the Tour de Sock. First up is some sparkly Dream in Color Starry. I was going to go with these silver beads, but they're a little too long to fit nicely on the stitches, so I switched to regular seed beads that are transparent .
They don't show up as well but they're a heck of a lot easier to get on the stitch. I think this is the first time in my life I've done a swatch for a sock, but all the chatter on ravelry about getting guage was making me nervous so I did it. I'm going to have to go down to a 2.0 mm from my usual 2.25 mm to get 8.5 sts/inch.
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Also waiting in the wings is this beautiful sweetgeorgia yarn in honey fig. This is going to be my first Camp Loopy project and it will be socks as well. I'm going with just a standard sock pattern for this one, because I have a feeling the Tour de Sock pattern is going to be a killer, but I'm going to incorporate a butterfly pattern and hope that'll show off the yarn nicely
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