Salt Air

These pale-greyish-green-with-a-touch-of-blue 'Salt Air' beads are very subtle. I don't really wear my own beads but if I did, I'd wear these ones.

They have cores of CiM Dirty Martini which are encased with Effetre Pale Aquamarine 038, with decoration and spacers in Effetre Pearl Grey 268.

I should have posted these black and white ones here last week but I forgot. My customer asked for the beads to be tumble-etched.

They turned out really nicely.

I've still got some black and white strands for sale in the shop and if you like the silky soft finish of the ones pictured you can opt to have them tumble-etched at no extra cost.

I never did get around to looking at YouTube shorts this weekend. Do you see what I mean about me lacking the drive for content creation? I've got other things to do, like knitting socks. Knitting a sock is way more satisfying than faffing about editing videos.

Talking of socks...

...I finished the green pair this weekend.

The pattern is Intersections by Marceline Smith and it's from the book 52 Weeks of Socks by Laine.

The undulating cables were very satisfying to knit but my word there are a lot of them. I'm mighty glad I can cable without a cable needle.

The yarn is West Yorkshire Spinners Signature 4 Ply in shade 0351 Cardamom.

In my previous post I said I was trying to decide which of two new skeins of sock yarn to use first. Well, I solved that problem by opting for neither. On Saturday evening I cast on a pair of socks with some wool from Eden Cottage Yarns instead.

This Nateby 4ply is a wonderfully soft merino and nylon blend in the shade Silver Birch which is a colour not dissimilar to the beads at the top of this post. The wool has a silver lurex thread and it glimmers beautifully.

I am away to the shed now. Will I make a bead video? Will I not? Who knows? Who cares? 

Have a good Monday!