D'vorahDavida
Yetzirah

Close Up And Personal Footwear
Mon Jul 13 2009

I have embarked upon the high seas of knitting

From the doldrums to obsession.


(Sounds a little manic depressive to me.)

Yeah, now that you mention it. It does sound a little unbalanced.

But that's because you have never turned a heel and picked up and worked a gusset in a sock.

It's a marvel of knitting construction that I still do not fully understand, but nevertheless can produce. Oh I work the stitches and turn the heel, but I'm still a little hazy on WHY the heel, you know.... turns.

[album 65561 Sock Intricacies.JPG]

Innit bootiful?

I just love everything about it. Though I do admit it can intimidate. I've decided doing it over and over is the antidote to fear.

I'm going to make the third pair to show the entire spectrum of possibilities... save one that is mostly black.
We aren't going to count the black. It's the constant contrast color, that's it.

(Oh dear. I can just HEAR the wheels turning in her little scientific brain, feeling that for a control, she must produce the black version too.)

No, I can't, because if we go down that road, then the checks would be interchangeable with the other three colors and that would make add four more variations... or is is eight? No, I'm not doing that. I don't have to prove EVERYTHING. ./.

(Okay, okay. You don't have to get cranky about it.) ((But I KNOW it's bothering her, deep down she thinks she is cheating.))

Arrrrrgggghhhhh!

[album 65561 GoofyHen2.JPG]

Socks are fine.
Socks are practical.
But the toilet.
It needs cleaning.
Desperately.
Can't we take care
of that first?
And admire the socks later?


NO.

(That's telling her.)


           
4 Comments
  • From:
    Mamallama (Legacy)
    On:
    Tue Jul 14 2009
    Wooooo Hooooo!
    You finally stood up to the Hen.
    I'm proud of ya kiddo.
    Now if you can just get () under control the world might be saved.
    Saved from what I'm not sure. :o)
  • From:
    InStitches (Legacy)
    On:
    Tue Jul 14 2009
    Turning a heel is rather facinating. Are you making a flap and then catching the sides or are you short rowing?

    And by the way, it is not cheating to skip the black combos; it is you wisely choosing to save your eyesight. ;)
  • From:
    Welshamethyst (Legacy)
    On:
    Tue Jul 14 2009
    Way to put the kabosh on The Hen. I'm seriously impressed.

    Oh, I liked the sox, too....
  • From:
    Pragmatist (Legacy)
    On:
    Tue Jul 14 2009
    I think I would like black with the other-colors squares.


    Bless