Drip Candles and Butterflies

I wish someone would write a book of knitting projects using all those little leftover colors of yarn that you end up with after finishing a stranded project. Even better, I wish the projects wouldn't require exact amounts of yarn so you wouldn't have to worry about running out of any one color.

The Drip Candles Socks from the book Think Outside the Sox would qualify. They are toe-up and they are stranded on the foot with a simple stitch pattern for the cuff. I used eight colors of leftover sock yarn (mostly semi-solids and solids) for mine. I highly recommend them and plan to make them again using size 1 dpns just for the heels and toes.

The next socks are Butterflies by Anniken Ellis who was a designer of the month on Sock Knitter's Anonymous on Ravelry. I used an off-white from the stash with Stroll Multi in the Paisley color.

Bubbles seems to approve of the new socks. 

I will try to finish up at least one last project before the end of the year and I'll be back Saturday with my year-end totals and my 2012 knitting resolutions.