Last month my dear Folks gave me a waffle maker for my birthday, AND two wonderful books full of advice and patterns for knitting socks. Wow.

And I had some sock yarn in my wee yarn stash. The single balls are of New Zealand Marino sock wool. The other two balls are a Kaffe Fasset designed yarn.

Super, amazing suprise - last Saturday this arrived from the folks as well. I just couldn't wait. Having found a pattern I loved I went and bought the yarn too ...

A hand dyed worsted marino yarn in the equivalent here of a double knit (needle sizes 4mm to 5mm)

Converting a skein to a ball took about an hour for one. The ball is huge, as shown beside an ordinary (yet super scrummy) apple. My Zebbycat was very bored with this going on, he attempted sleep in our living room, then retreated to the comfort of our bed in the room next door.

And I've already started knitting the wrap, with 2 1/2 pattern rows completed (25 rows of the 10 row pattern). Photos soon, I promise. This 100% NZ Marino yarn is so lovely to handle and knit with, even in our summer heat.
And super luck - Zebbycat now mostly ignores it when Mickle is knitting. That bed is sooooo much cosier to snuggle and snore/snoozle upon.
Wishing you all happy and peacefull times, Mickle and my Zebbycat (looking very cute as he washes his face and chin)