First, a knee update: I wear a brace and I move very. slowwwwly. The bruises are quite pretty, but I'll spare you photographs.
Instead (with a similar color scheme, actually) I present you with the Finally Finished Spina di Pesce:
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Once again, tragically, I ran out of yarn, and they are shorter than I prefer, and either I have really large feet or sock designers have really little feet, but I need to learn that the yardage called for
is never enough and buy more. The end.
I worked them separately, and that went much better. After knitting Baudelaire, which are so comfy and beautiful when on but take way too much tugging to
get on, I went ahead and increased in the ankle, which it turns out I probably didn't need to do, because now they're baggy in the ankle. I don't care. I'm not ripping them out again.
I don't care much for the yarn, which is disappointing. Aurora Yarns Acquerello is both thin and scratchy, and no amount of warm water baths seems to be softening them up.
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On the other hand, they fit (the foot) great. I love the enormous gusset, and the pattern itself, though challenging and producing several "huh?" headtilts and eyebrow furrows, is fun and graceful, and I'm very proud.
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People in the airport who saw me photographing my feet
surely understood the need to document socks such as as these.
And I love the toe. Love it. I want all my toes to look exactly like this. I'm not sure how I'm going to accomplish that, exactly (do you think Monkey would look strange with a big V at the toe?) but I'll find a way.
![](https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjBfQUkk-yvBa4XdRq0dtO-2VECpVy2UNcOLeb5M6lUL6LxGATOTAL2XFJ9nipcKdZSz1c33v0NFJ286b3qVsyk23qOkn56Kpi8OK_OfC4rTQUqK0IwjWC7NAxOJqiXY5JNrGooQVma-S0/s400/spina.jpg)
And if nothing else, I learned a lot about cabling without a cable needle, which is fantastic, because anything that resembles a double pointed needle (or, fess up, is
actually a dpn, because why buy something else that is basically a dpn?) stirs only irritation in my heart, and what's more, that little needle is constantly getting misplaced. (Knit, knit, knit, okay, cable time--oh, goddamn it, where'd it go? Look everywhere, find that I'm sitting on it, rinse, repeat). Unfortunately, I can only manage it with up to three stitches--any cable that's larger than that and I'm just dropping stitches and cursing and wishing I knew where that stupid dpn had got to. But it's something.
3 comments:
Those socks are beautiful! Love the gusset! ^_^
Why is this labeled "mother?"
It's labeled mother for no reason at all, really. Back in the day when I invented the labels, I had "baby" and "mother" for things that were knit for babies and things that could be knit for mothers. That's kind of fallen by the wayside and now I occasionally and halfassedly label.
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