Woolgirl Oz Sock Club - Enchanted Forest/Flying Monkeys

The next kit in my Woolgirl Oz sock club arrived on Monday, this time themed for the Enchanted Forest/Flying Monkeys. It's the first of my Oz kits to arrive before I finished knitting the previous one - partly because I started knitting a sweater and partly because the kits are now coming monthly instead of every other month until the end of the year.

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So here it is all wrapped up like a gift:

And here it is unpacked:

Again, the included bag is a bit small to hold an entire ball/cake of sock yarn, but large enough for the rest of what came with the kit. I admit that on that point I've been disappointed with the kits so far. I only need so many small bags for tiny notions and things, but I could really use some that were big enough to hold a sock project while in progress. At least they've all been unique and of different shapes and styles, though.

The Oz pill box is divided into thirds inside, which although tiny will probably good for keeping stitch markers. The "Don't make me get the Flying Monkeys" button is actually a mirror on the back, which is fun. But my favorite accessory might be the little plastic boxy looking thing with colored circles - it holds a full-width post-it pad on one side and then a rainbow of post-it tabs on the other. Awesome! (Post-it tabs are things I've seen other people put to good use before but haven't yet tried. Now I have no excuse not to.)

This time there weren't quite as many goodies, but twice the yarn and 3 patterns!

There's a full-size sock pattern for the forest yarn (Curious Creek Wasonga), and both a Flying Monkey anklet and Flying Monkey fingerless mitts pattern for the Mama Llama DK. Now I'm not a huge fan of pink and I don't think it quite fits with the Flying Monkeys theme (I think they have more red than pink), but I think the anklet pattern looks fun and it will probably be what I cast on first. (Especially since my size 1 sock needles are still in use for the Emerald City socks, doh!)

But , it's getting to be that busy time of year again and so this is the first of my Oz kits that I haven't cast on within the first few days. I just have too many things going on so I'm not exactly sure when I'll get to them. My flying monkey isn't happy about it, but he's just going to have to wait his turn.