Woolgirl Oz Sock Club - Oz

It's time to share my final Oz Sock Club kit - featuring Oz himself.  Although Woolgirl started an additional year of the club for 2011, I'm afraid I've had my fill of Oz and opted out, so this is the end of the yellow brick road for me.

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The kit contents:

I'm not sure if it was due to post-holiday timing, but this particular kit didn't make much of an impression on me.  The project bag is great -- it's large enough to easily hold a large skein project and then some, and the box style with a zipper always seems nice and secure.  Then there was actually very little other swag included -- a small post-it note pad, a couple of magnets, an oddly shaped Wizard of Oz tin, and a keychain with a stack of large beads that didn't make it into the picture. 

The pattern didn't jump out at me, either, but I have learned that some of the included patterns aren't represented very well in the pattern photos.  This particular one is rather hard to see since it's obscured by the busy color changes in the yarn.

Now the yarn:

is a lovely squishy Superwash Merino Sock Yarn by Pigeonroof Studios.  I'm not sure about how it looks knit up in the pattern photos, but I'm always game to try knitting with a nice new yarn!

Of course I'm still running a bit behind.  I did finish my Lollipop socks and I have the first of the Tin Man socks on the needles, but I haven't made a lot of knitting time lately and progress is slow.  For the moment, I'm determined to try to wrap up some lingering projects from 2010 before I cast on something new, so it might be quite a few months before I manage to wrap up the majority of the Oz club socks.  Then there's the attempt to knit down some stash...