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Socks again!

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Back to those #PridePodMAL socks, they’re done! This is what happens when you make socks for a person with tiny feet, I think, and it’s kind of amazing. They took maybe 12 hours of knitting all together, and they’re done. Again, it’s the Wildwood Socks pattern by Catherine Meyer aka GingerDogKnits. The lace pattern is quite simple, both written and charted, and I love how it turns out.

The color is terribly washed out in the photo, it’s called pistachio, and IRL it’s a beautiful tonal cool green I got from the Etsy shop WhimzeeStitches. I’m really glad I probably have enough left of it to make myself a pair of short socks too.

Since the socks are very small, I didn’t block them on my giant foot sock blockers and stretch them all out of shape; I’m waiting till a pair of smaller blockers I ordered comes in, since I won’t be seeing the recipient for the next few weeks anyway. I know sock blockers aren’t a requirement, but I like the uniform way they make the socks look, so I use them.

This is the first time I’ve finished a pair of socks in . . . a while. But they went well and were fun, so I think I’ll be going back to more of them. Goodness knows I have enough sock yarn waiting to be used.

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Pride Make-a-long

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One of the podcasts I’ve been listening to started talking about a Pride make-along a few months back, and she said that other podcasts were also involved. So the result has been that I started listening to / watching another few podcasts that are also involved, bought some yarn and project bags, and will be getting a pattern to get involved.

Because at this point in life, I’m all about Pride. The very concept is the opposite of shame, which we’ve been trained to feel for too many reasons, and I no longer have any use for that in my life.

Not that a rainbow bag and ace flag wallet is going to change the world, but also . . . in small ways, we can all change the world. One person and one interaction at a time.

So today I’m casting on some Wildwood Socks by Catherine Meyer with Whimzee Stitches yarn, in one of their project bags as well. So LGBTQA+ creators all around, including the knitter, since I’m maybe the acest romance writer out there. Not that it’s a competition.

If you want to join me, they’ve got a group over here: Pride Pod MAL