I finally finished the socks I started a few weeks ago. I'm happy with how they turned out, but that is a long time to be using 4-ply yarn on 2mm needles. I tend to show affection through gestures rather than by being verbally or physically affectionate - I'm sorry you didn't get that job, here's some chocolate! Congratulations on your exam results, I made you a thing! - so if I ever make you a pair of socks, you can take it as a sign that I harbour a great deal of affection for you.
The pattern for these is Mock Cable Socks from Toe-Up Socks In A Box. I used Wendy Happy 4-Ply, which I've not seen since getting it. I think using heavily variegated yarn for cables is against The Rules of knitting, but I think they turned out well in spite.
A photo for This Is Knit's photo competition: a wip or fo in a 'uniquely Irish' setting, though some of this is Irish by context. Here are my socks with my copy of Harry Potter agus an Órchloch, along with my foclóir (because having school-leavers not be fluent in a language they've been learning since age five is an entrenched part of Irish culture), and a bar of Butlers (the most Irish of chocolate) which I bought in celebration of getting an interview for a PhD in Edinburgh (emigration being a proud Irish tradition). Bonus Irishness: The socks are a birthday present for my mother, and there's nothing and no-one more Irish than the Irish mammy.*
The foclóir (a gift, not my school one) even has beautiful old Irish font. Would you ever look how lovely it is :)
*Dear Americans, the Irish mammy is completely different to the Jim Crow mammy stereotype.
2 comments:
:o That font! Where did you get the foclóir? Also those socks look lovely... and sort of delicious. But I know socks aren't for eating.
It is ever so lovely! Stephen gave it to me for Christmas a few years ago, I'd have to ask him where he got it. One of these days I am going to hole myself away with my foclóir and all the úrscéalta I haven't gotten around to reading, and it will be just lovely. And it would be good yarn for a toy cake, it does look like icing.
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