We celebrate the return of winter to these here parts. I do enjoy the white stuff and even the cold,
and even though my thoughts were beginning to turn toward spring gardening, I
knew it was too early and Mother Nature still had evil tricks up her sleeve. Truth be told, I revel more in the white
stuff than G does, who is grumbling about having to go out and plow. I am thinking about cross country skiing…
Of course, I get to spend the day indoors
working at my newly functioning computer wearing bright and cheery Carnival
Socks:
Basic socks knit according to directions from Annie Modesitt
in Confessions of a Knitting Heretic.
Yarn: Simple Stripes
from KnitPicks in color Snapdragon
Needle size 2
I do really like the toe and heel, especially the afterthought
heel, it fits nicely and snugly on my narrow heels. I am learning more about adapting sock
patterns to my high instep and narrow heel, but this heel is quite
promising. I would like to do something
like this from the top down or toe up, but the afterthought heel has definite
advantages. Hmm….more exploration of
sock techniques is called for I think. I
wonder if the short-row heel is similar?
As for the toe, picking up the stitches and knitting it as
an afterthought is fine and I could be easily adapted to a top-down sock. There must be some really neat way to cast on
the 8 stitches at the toe and knit the sock toe up from that, although
generally I don’t mind grafting at all; it just seems like it would be nice to
not have to go back and finish the toes after the fact.
I still prefer to call them carnival socks as they are
rather garishly bright. Still, I can’t
help but smile when I put them on, and who sees them under pants and covered by
shoes, or snow boots? Yet I know they
are there and even a dreary gray winter day is brighter because I know they are
hidden away, warm and snuggly, on my feet.
I tend to like bright and colorful things, although I am far more
likely to keep them hidden away, like my brightly painted closets, or this box
in which we store brown paper bags from
the grocery store:
It goes so well with the socks, don’t ya think?