I’m planning on making socks this summer, mainly because I never wear normal ones. They just don’t fit right and don’t look pretty. Very superficial of me, but clothing these days is superficial. If I wanted to be warm I’d wear woolly blankets. Actually I should do that sometimes, toga party in a fleece.

But to make socks you need yarn. To make pretty socks you need pretty yarn. (And a lovely pattern). So meet the first step of the plan and a peek at the second stage, starting at the plus one.

This is Lana Grossa sock yarn. Of the non-cotton meilenweit variety.

I don’t know what colour way this is, because I picked it up in some Dutch store and forgot to look at the label. I by now have also lost the label. I just call it olive, which is rather self-explanatory.

The meilenweit olive is going to become a pair of Whiskers and Pawprints socks. The yarn, well it reminds me of my cat. Meaning that my cat is actually green. Or rather, has olive-y bits in it’s fur. His fur is a bit of a mix n’ match sort of affair, lots of black, spots of white and grey and olive streaked through it.I don’t have proof right now, the old one doesn’t really lie still to take pictures.

This is Malabrigo sock yarn, in the colourway Solis. I ordered this online, actually I order all my mal online. I rewound the skein into two more or less equal parts so that I could be sure my socks were more or less equal.

This yarn is going to become a pair of Nutkin socks. I do believe this yarn is rather scrumptious, the colourway is truly beautiful and the yarn itself is deliciously soft.

And more Mal sock yarn. This time in Violetta Africana, which is also pretty. I might be slightly in love with Malabrigo colourways.

These will become Vinnland socks. Which is a lovely pattern in and of itself and though it could be done in a very heavily variegated yarn I wanted to do it justice and keep things sedate. Sedate and pretty in this case.

And this is Mal worsted, in the colourway Cabernet. This is actually not going to become a pair of socks, but a gift to my grandmother. She’s turning 75 in August and has requested a beret/hat thing to keep her head warm this winter. As making hats is really not all that difficult and doesn’t take all that long I acquiesced. And she’s my gran, so really the decision was really easy.

So I let her pick out the yarn, this one, and a pattern. Turns out my gran has good taste and she wishes for me to make her a Spring time beret. (Ravelry link!)

I hope she likes it.