At last

It felt as though these socks took forever. In fact, it was just under a year. But given that I usually finish a pair of socks in a couple of weeks, it did take a long time. I'm not sure why. I bought the yarn at last year's Sheep & Wool Festival. I asked the vendor if she thought it would wear well for socks. She didn't know, and I promised to let her know. Not that I'm going to get much wear out of them between now and this year's festival.

It's totally not the project's fault that I broke one of my dpns over Easter, while carting this project around. I dropped a book in my bag without regard to tiny dpns. Repairs were attempted, but a chunk had gone missing, and the strength just wasn't there without it. Still, I had a spare (yay, Knitpicks sets, 6 dpns per size!).

I think the real delay was that a month after I cast them on, I retired from work, and all those meetings where I churned out socks. One can work on much more complicated things in retirement.

Yarn: Yankee Dyer Yarns' fingering weight Yankee Breeze in Cantaloupe, 50/50 merino/cotton
Needles: US 1 1/2 (2.5mm) 
Pattern: Wendy Knits' Double Eyelet Rib Toe-up Socks , one of my favorites.

I only used 2/3 of the skein. I might buy more at the festival this year in other colors and try this pretty sweater. But meanwhile - I have no socks on the needles!