Countdown to Paris, Secret Pal and Socks!

A lot to fit in this post. Firstly, I’m very excited because we’re off to Paris tomorrow morning! We’re going via EuroStar again which is a very civilised way to travel. Our first full day in the city is my birthday and we then come back on Saturday night – we could have stayed until Sunday but I wanted a day to recover before going back to work. Plus this way I don’t have to wait too long before seeing the Doctor Who finale! Yes, eventually you’d know the five per cent sci-fi part of this blog would appear!

But Paris – I’ve been taking notes from Bonne Marie, Becky and Jackie’s blogs since they visited a few places that I haven’t been to before. I really hope I can up early on the Saturday to make that market. I want to get some of those vintage buttons but we also have to catch our return train. I’ll also be meeting up with the lovely Kate Gilbert while I’m there.

My final Secret Pal parcel arrived this morning!

Here we see some Opal lollypop! Three balls of Toy yarn – this has an intriguing chain type construction that looks like crochet, very interesting. A cone of a lace-weight boucle in a rich purple and some treats for my cats! They have a packet of Felix treats and two little footballs!There was also a copy of sandra knitting magazine. Thanks
Sylvia! Yes
Sylvia was my Secret Pal 4 and I was SP 4 to Marta in Germany. Marta is going through a pretty rough time at the moment so please send her good thoughts.

Now onto the socks. Here are my current socks in progress…

the socks at the front with the stitch markers on are from yarn dyed by Jeni! This was a present and custom dyed for me! As you can see it’s knitting up beautifully. Jeni sometimes sells her sock yarn on eBay.

Then on the upper left we have a Lorna’s lace sock in the Get Knitted colourway and on the upper right Fleece Artist sockyarn in wonderful peacock colours. The FL was purchased in Toronto last year. Incidentally in the Latest KnitCast when I talk about the Celestial Merino I had forgotten that it’s custom dyed for Lucy Neatby by Fleece Artist. I bought a couple of lovely skeins while at GK the other weekend.

Now some finished Lorna’s Laces socks –

The sunlight has made the colours look quite different in this pic. The blue and purple ones are Fresh Stripe which was a present from SP 3 Wendy and the pink and purple ones are Girly Stripe which I bought last year sometime. The GS ones look a little different again because I haven’t worn them yet.

I’ve also taken some pix of my Silk Garden Clapotis which I hope to post later. Now, I have to get started on my packing!