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I realized in doing my WIP Roundup the other day that there may be a distinct reason I am bored with my current knitting. It’s all brown. All of it! Brown, beige, tan, maybe some grey. Depressing! So to make my knitting not so boring, I first finished up some of the boring beige items.

The French Press Slippers that were a gift for my friend Carmen are finally done! In March, 4 months too late. Or maybe they are 6 months early! Either way, I finally get to send them out to her in the coming week. The felting was a bit uneven on one of the toes, but it will even out with wear and washing. The buttons are from my random button stash, I am a bit sad to be letting them go as I really like them, but I still have one or two left from the set so maybe I need to make my own slippers!

I also finished up those Noro striped socks I was working on for what seemed like ages. I think these took a lot longer than they should of as they were my travel knitting project. For three weeks I actually drove to work instead of taking the train so they got no action.

Now that they are complete I thought it would be good to add some colour to my knitting life, so I grabbed the most colourful sock yarn I could find for my new train knitting project. Behold, the Zauberball.

The gradual transition on this yarn with such bright colours is similar to Noro, but the yarn is extremely evenly spun and the colours do not mix at all. It’s like the OCD version or Noro, which is kind of great. I love the colour change so much that I am attempting to come up with a way to not mess it up while turning the heel. I have a few ideas, but am unsure how they will turn out in knitting actuality.

I am going to head over to knitting group in an hour so hopefully I can bounce my throughts off of them and see if they think it will work. If it does, I will DEFINITELY share it. If it doesn’t, I will probably just hide my shame and pretend like these socks never existed.