Next Step Sock Knit-a-long

I'm not sure if you can sense the excitement in my voice.....but guess what?

I've finished a sock........and not just one sock........

.......two socks.......that's the beauty of doing two at a time you see!

So there we have it, I've done it, made toe-up-two-at-a-time socks and they fit like a dream, thank goodness, as I'm not planning on making anymore in a hurry!!  (You know this is probably like child birth and I'll be announcing plans to make another pair next month!)

The pattern was easy enough, not having attempted any of these methods before, its rather like magic as the socks start to form while your busy looking the other way.  I was rather surprised when someone mentioned the magic loop, that, that was what I was doing apparently.  I knitted them using 2.25mm needles and Regia sock yarn.  The pattern is Twisted Baskets from the Melissa Morgan-Oakes book .

I'm linking up with the rest of the knit-a-longers over at Crafts from the Cwtch...check out all the clever clogs over there!

Anyway....this welsh girl wants to wish you all a Happy Saint David's Day.....for those of you in the dark, 1st March is the day that we Welshies celebrate our patron Saint, St. David...so....

Dydd Gwyl Dewi  Hapus!

Happy St. David's Day!

Happy St. David's Day!

In Wales, we celebrate our patron saint, St. David, on the first of March....

The children dress up in their Welsh costumes, traditionally the boys used to wear little suits, but now it tends to be Welsh rugby shirts and little girls dress up in traditional welsh costumes, with shawls and black bonnets with lace trim.

I have busied myself like a good Welsh lady making welsh cakes for tea....yum!

And on request, I crocheted a leek for biggest boy (after a few attempts on trying to work out what exactly a crocheted leek would look like if I saw one) and a couple of daffodils for the other two,  middle said that it was far to girly, so I wore his to the school Eisteddfod (pronounced eye-stethe-fod) this afternoon. 

An eisteddfod is normally a performance of music and dance, where people show off their talents....and what a talented bunch of children there were today at middle's school....a real delight.

So, I know what you're thinking, what would the model Welsh family being having for their supper this evening?......well, curry of course!