This is Opal's Harry Potter yarn in the Harry and Ron colorway, with a lovely picture of Harry and Ron on the label and everything. My usual sock needles - 2.75mm - and 64 stitches, stocking stitch leg and foot, short-row heel, toe as usual. Love these colors! That grey and orange and yellow striping is fantastic.
And now for something completely different.
It's another foray into colorwork - Elizabeth Zimmermann's Mock-Stocks or De-feets (I can't decide which name I like better), from "The Opinionated Knitter." She has a pattern for stockings from which she wholeheartedly recommends removing the feet, if you happen not to need the feet. I figure they'll be like legwarmers, only they go under your jeans instead of over them, and they'll be great for shovelling snow, or just for when it's about 3 degrees below zero (Fahrenheit) and I can't bear the thought of going outside but I really have to. Which does happen occasionally around here, and the Farmer's Almanac is calling for a particularly bitter-cold winter in Ohio this year. Mock-Stocks ahoy!
Miss Dashwood has asked for a pair of gloves, speaking of winter. I asked her what color, or colors, and whether she wanted any kind of a design on them, and she said, "Surprise me! And I mean really surprise me. Don't work on them when I'm around." I believe I can manage that! And I think I know just what they're going to look like. (Well - I know what I want them to look like. We'll see whether I can make it happen in real life!)
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