Better Than Blogging

I come from a crafty family.

My mother, a true artisan, ran a wood refinishing business throughout much of my childhood.  Her sister, my aunt Teesy, has a jewelry business and currently sells her amazing work in craft shows.  (I hope she has a website up soon that I can share with you.)  Their other two sisters, Jana and Libby, are also always making incredible things, including costumes, clothes, home decor, etc...

My paternal grandmother, an avid knitter, crocheter, and maker of things, taught me to crochet when I was about six years old.  Her sons (including my father) all make and do creative things with their hands for a living.  Her only daughter, my aunt Doe, has recently rediscovered knitting, and whenever I visit her in North Carolina we always have at least one knitting session involving a trip to a local yarn shop, a few hours of knitting, coffee, and wine.  (We'd do this together every day if we could.)

She doesn't have a knitting blog, but she recently completed her first pair of socks and wanted to share them with me.  So she mailed something even better to me in Israel: a parcel of  photos and a swatch of the yarn she used!

These are the socks in progress, complete with swatch:

And here are the finished socks:

Absolutely fabulous, just like her.

I can't wait to see them (and her) in person this summer, but this was definitely the next best thing!