I promised you wouldn't see the orange stockinette sweater again, and I'm making good on my promises. It's currently blocking. It's got some fixes needed, but we'll talk about that on Friday. For now, we're going to talk about the new project I started today.
To be fair, this is barely a swatch at this point, let alone a WIP, but it is what it is and it's sure pretty exciting to me.
I've got the opportunity to test knit an AMAZING new sock pattern from KnottyKnerd of KnerdGirl Knits that's inspired by Thranduil, the Elvenking from J.R.R. Tolkien's The Hobbit. She showed them on the podcast and although I've always been a Legolas fan (since I read the book at the age of ten) and therefore not the biggest lover of Thranduil, I knew I had to knit these socks. Since she was looking for test knitters, I figured this would be a great opportunity. I'm excited to get started.
The yarn is my own. That's right, I'm actually knitting with my own hand-dyed yarn! If you follow me on Twitter you've already gotten a bit of a sneak preview, actually. Here's the story. When I got the pattern to test knit, I pulled all the sock yarn (admittedly there isn't that much of it) out of my stash to try and find just the right colourway to do the Elvenking justice. I'd found some Rowan Fine Art in the "Waxwing" colourway that I bought this summer that was a lovely set of rich dark reds and browns that would likely have worked, and I was settled on using that one. And then I had an idea: What if I just made a Thranduil-inspired colourway to knit these socks with? So I did.
I haven't decided on the name yet. I love what KnottyKnerd named the socks ("Do Not Speak to Me of Dragon Fire"), but I don't want to steal her name, so I'm trying to come up with my own. Right now it's just tentatively called "Elvenking" until I figure out something better (or don't). I'm not sure it will ultimately end up working for the socks since they have a lovely cabled leaf and other patterning all over them and I'm worried that although the colour changes in the yarn are subtle, the pattern will get lost, but we'll see. At worst, I'll go to the Rowan as a backup and I'll still have created my new favourite yarn colourway. Win-win, right?
More later, I'm sure!
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