two FOs!

I had faith that it would happen eventually.

These are Straight Laced from the Red Bird Knits sock of the month club. They're 100% cotton so I expect their life span to be slightly shorter than the time it took to knit them. I did mess with the pattern a bit. I think the heel was supposed to be eye of partridge but I thought regular heel stitch would look better with the straight lines of the leg. And being a creature of habit I did my usual toe instead of the graftless version suggested.



And the crochet blanket is finally done too. I really like this ripple stitch because it looks like knit feather and fan. It's #140/141 in Jan Eaton's book 200 Ripple Stitch Patterns. I made up the edging on the fly and had to fiddle with it a couple of times before it looked decent. I ended up with a row of sc, a row of hdc, and a final row of crab stitch in a different colour.