The pattern had me make the heel in stockinette. Which I thought was wierd. I also thought that maybe it wouldn’t fit my Secret Socky Pal’s foot as snuggly as a sock should – especially considering the lace on the top. So I switched from size 2s to size 1s and am feeling better about the whole thing. I made a couple of other “adjustments” to the pattern, but I can’t tell you about them and maintain Secret Socky Pal’s anonymity. You’ll just have to make peace with not knowing.

The Doppelganger Cardigan has seams and a neck! The neckband doesn’t look quite like its counterpart, so I’ve soaked it, pinned out and it’s drying. If it still looks weird after all of that, I will take it off and put it back on. After that, all that’s left it a row of single crochet around the bands. Great Gran is going to put it on for me. Nice touch.

I solved my Family Denim Aran problem.

I had this stuff in my stash.

That yarn was supposed to be for a vest for M. I swatched and it works perfectly! The real questions is: why did I buy SO MUCH to make a sweater vest? It must have been a premonition.

I finally made it down to Daphne to Debi’s Little Yarn House’s clearance sale to buy all of this:

Not Pictured: 200 Knitted Blocks

Sadly, this was the only Cherry Tree Hill left (what do you think, Becky?). But the Wildfoote is pretty cool – I don’t have any lavender socks. Debi says she has some pale pink somewhere. She will hang on to it for me when she comes across it. And we all know how much I like to knit with self-striping yarns! Especially when they are half price!

In our next episode: Emily learns to do fair isle for the Olympics.