The big reveal, and a little pic for good measure

Ok, the time has come to reveal who I was spoiling for the One Skein Secret Pal 🙂 I was gifting to Model Widow, and I thoroughly enjoyed myself 😀 Go see what she got, and the finished blocked version of the crochet scarf. She’s a lovely person, very talented (she makes lace, knits, sews and more!), and she has pics of llamas on her blog. What more do you need?! I’ve not had the reveal from my spoiler yet – she’s emailed me to keep me up to date, and we haven’t quite finished yet, so I’m looking forward to see what she comes up with and who she is and everything 🙂
And just for some obligatory knitting action, here is the newly completed half a pair of Pom socks. The yarn (Lorna’s Laces in Desert Flower) has predictably pooled, but in quite a funky way (I love that the pink bits are two shades of pink, and the blue pooling blue and sand). It’s a little wide on the shaping – I like a tight fitting tight knit sock, and I had to cut the decreases for the toe short (I have small feet, which probably contributes to the love of sock knitting). The second sock is already started, and I have visions of it being completed by the end of the week, inbetween dissertation stuff (5 weeks to go! Gah!). Now that I’ve got past the bits where I keep going wrong, reading it wrong etc etc etc I’ve really enjoying knitting this. The pattern works for my foot so that all I have to do after the heel is one repeat of the pattern and then I do the toe 😀 I like that kind of structure, so that I know where I’m going and how much I have left to do. There will probably be enough yarn for another pair of socks too, albeit with a short ankle, but that’s fine 😀