Last week, there was a bit of a perfect storm on the Wollmeise front. Sign-ups for her sock-club were open for three days, and then she did a shop update while people were waiting to find out if they’d gotten in. And then the Loopy Ewe split its Wollmeise shipment into three separate sneak-ups.
Oh, the feeding frenzy.
I entered the lottery for the club but didn’t get in. (There were over 1000 entries for 535 spots.) I had three skeins in my basket on her site, but left them, because I couldn’t quite afford both the club membership and the order from Germany. I missed all three Loopy Ewe sneak-ups – I was in the car during the first two, and on the Reference desk for the third. (I hear the third one lasted at least 10 minutes.)
I was offered two skeins by folks in the Loopy Groupies forum on Ravelry. One Fluffy in Wilder Mohn, and one of the original 100% merino in Gewitterhimmel. The latter arrived Saturday (along with some gorgeous nummanumma, which will be the subject of another blog entry).
Here it is posing with a baby banana tree in my yard:
So, the question is: what do I make?
I’m thinking of making Helena from the Fluffy Wilder Mohn for Little Miss (although we’ll see how that works out as far as gauge, since the pattern calls for a DK weight. It could be a little too lacy in the stockinette section to really work). From the Gewitterhimmel, I’m thinking socks for me. The Wollmeise has generous yardage (574!) and reportedly looks FANTASTIC is twisted stitch patterns.
I’m leaning toward the Estonian Socks from the Vogue Knitting Ultimate Sock Book. But other possibilities are Kate Blackburn’s Catherine, SpillyJane’s Naive Socks, Kristi Geraci’s Froot Loop, and the Roman Rib Socks from Little Box of Socks.
Thoughts?