Leaf of absence

I can't believe I didn't blog for the entire month of February. How lax of me!

To be honest, I didn't really make many beads last month. The beads I did make were leaf-shaped. I'm not sure why I suddenly had the urge to make leaves but make them I did.

Leaves in Effetre Carnelian 536

There are a few pairs of earrings and a couple of other leafy bits still available in my shop.

'Golden Gleam' leaf earrings

'Leafy' shimmy necklace

Bead motivation has been a bit lacking these past few weeks. I don't know why - it just has been. I'll snap out of it like I always do. I have got some more leaves to photograph and list on my website.

I've been knitting socks, though. I finished off the magenta ones from my previous post and I need to photograph those, but I finished some colourwork socks on Friday.

I've made colourwork jumpers, hats and mittens in the past but I'd never applied stranded knitting to socks before these. I happened upon Stone Knits on Instagram the other week and was really taken with Charlotte's Tiptoe Through the Tulips socks. I ordered her Charming Colorwork Socks book and got to work on my own pair of tulip socks. 

The socks are knitted with Drops Nord in shades 01, 10 and 11. The yarn is a wool and alpaca mix so they're very soft and comfy.

I need to decide which sock pattern of Charlotte's I'm going to make next but right now I'm going down to the shed. Will it be leaves or non-leaves? We shall see...