Please don't think that I spend all my time at home with my feet up (despite what Mr C may say). I did have to sit back and admire this new pair of socks though. The yarn is Regia silk color in shade 0189 (nairobi color). Lovely to knit with and the socks themselves certainly have a silky feel to them when on my feet.
I've spent the majority of today sat in front of my sewing machine, but sadly without much sewing going on. Sewing through a pin is never a good thing. It's even worse though when doing so somehow causes bobbin case and needle plate become misaligned so that the sewing machine will no longer sew. Luckily the operating manual has a maintenance appendix in which the cleaning section explains how these should be aligned. I didn't even know my sewing machine manual even had an appendix! Combine that with the excellent description of how a sewing machine works that I found online (brilliant animations on pages 2 and 3) and I'm delighted to say that I managed to use the symptoms to understand the problem and then fix it. The engineer in my is delighted. The seamstress in me is annoyed at how long it took!
Awesome socks – and great news about the sewing machine!