Happy new year, friends, and welcome back to me trying to be a legitimate blogger. I swear, there was a time where I was good at pumping out this content, but I seem to have fallen off the wagon as work and life blew up into chaos. And, to be honest, there were a couple years where I wasn’t knitting much because my mental health was in the toilet while I slogged through some stuff - I’m glad that’s changed!
I know that, as a Gemini, this creative spurt is going to be short-lived, so I’m embracing it while I can and getting all the projects off my needles (and hooks). Unfortunately, I also keep buying supplies to put even more projects back on them.
But one of the projects I managed to get off my needles was my annual Cozy Knitter Advent Socks. If you’re unfamiliar, this self-striping yarn comes ready to knit with 24 stripes and is different every year. Ideally, you’d knit a stripe per day, but I never do because I’m usually bogged down with gift-making, so I got myself in the Christmas spirit by starting these the week before Christmas and finishing them a few days after.
With the standard end-of-year insanity that we all try to avoid, I knew I’d want a simple pattern that would be relaxing, but I was tired of the vanilla self-striping patterns I’d knit in recent years, so I took to Ravelry and found the Easy Pattern For Self Striping Socks by Frida Åberg. I barely had to read the pattern to memorize it and I was off.
I made a few changes, namely using the Fish Lips Kiss heel (so I didn’t have to worry about uneven striping) and an Umbrella Toe. And since I’d used green for last year’s contrast color, I decided to use red this year. Which means I’m quickly running out of options for coming years, lol.
These socks are so festive and make me happy and you can bet your bottom dollar I’ll be making another pair in 2022.
Project Info
Yarn: 2021 Advent Stripe by The Cozy Knitter
Pattern: Easy Pattern For Self Striping Socks by Frida Åberg