The call of the socks

I'm supposed to be knitting a sweater. Does this look like a sweater to you? Does it look like something that would fit on the torso of an adult human female? No!
I have these two skeins of Wollmeise Pure that go beautifully together (these two here, in fact, in colour ways Poem and Jewitta über Berlin to be exact)

I wanted a lightweight sweater that could use these two skeins so I decided to make another Elphaba as I know my size uses this quantity of yarn and I love the one I have and wear it a lot. So far I have the shoulder area and have just joined front and back under the arms.

I'm also supposed to be knitting a lace shawl. That would be this one.
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I'm about 420 yards into this one so far. It's going to be huge and beautiful but it doesn't really lend itself to being taken out and about for knitting on-the-go. (That said, I did take it to lunch with knitting friends on Saturday but only managed three rounds in as many hours!)

For the last week I have been resisting the urge to cast on the socks which have been running round my head saying "design us, design us"! Today I could resist no longer. I had the yarn wound already (Valley Huntington, which was wound for a previous project which was never started) so really it would have been rude and disrespectful to the yarn to not just cast on today and start knitting.
I have no doubt that the socks will be completed long before either the sweater or the shawl!!