My coffee won’t kick in. Send help.
The sky’s all gray and flat today and somone seems to have drained all the caffeine from my coffee. I’ve got an impressive pile of work to do, but all I want to do is drink more coffee (maybe if I just have MORE) and knit socks.
I finished the secret socks and I must say I rather like them. Fingers crossed that the recipient does as well. Photo later, I promise.
I’ve got these great three-buckle Doc Marten boots that come up almost to my knees and make me feel like I’m sixteen again. (You can kind of see them in the Clapotis post.) For a while I’ve been wishing I had really cute knee socks that could be seen over the tops of those boots, so as soon as I finished the Secret Socks I grabbed the deep red sock yarn (Blue Moon Fiber Arts superwash merino bought at Rhinebeck) seen at the top right of the sock wheel of the previous entry and started to play.
I could have probably found a knee sock pattern for dpns very easily and converted it to a two circs method. It seemed easier, though, to just take the same socks on two circs simple sock I can knit in my sleep and add a calf and calf shaping and adjust the rest of the pattern accordingly. So I’ve cobbled together a simple knee sock pattern for the two circs method which I’ll gladly share when the socks are done, if folks are interested.
Oh–and joy of joys–my boy WANTS me to make him a pair of socks. He doesn’t wear sweaters, I’ve already made him a scarf and he’s not the kind of guy who sees the need for more than one scarf, and he lost the hat I made him, so I don’t have many opportunities to knit for Billy. I’d made him a pair of socks in the past, which he wore on non-work days, but he felt they were too…umm…exuberant for work. That is, they weren’t a plain, solid-colored sock. (Where’s the fun in knitting with solid sock yarn? He can buy socks if that’s what he wants.) Well, baby got a new job. (He’s a physical therapist.) At his new clinic things are more laid back and everyone apparently walks around in their socks all day. So now he’s open to the idea of wearing interesting socks, because people will see them. (No, this doesn’t necessarily make sense to me either, but I’m happy he wants the socks to be seen.) He ASKED for socks. I’m thrilled! Thrilled! I sent him to the sock stash and he chose Lorna’s Laces in Blackwatch, which is exactly what I had in mind for him. Clever boy. I’m casting on for his socks today.
I wonder if it’s really that he’s more comfortable in colorful socks in the new job, or if it’s that living surrounded by yarn has worn him down? I wore almost all black all the time before I started knitting. You may have noticed that that’s changed. That red coat of mine? I bought it at a flea market for ten bucks three years ago, but this is the first year I’ve worn it. It always felt like too much color before. You have to work up to wearing that kind of red. I think it’s thanks to the Noro that I’m now ready for it.
So ruby red knee socks for me; blue, green, and black socks for my boy…. Clearly I should be spending all day knitting socks, yes? Could you please drop a note to my clients to explain why they need to extend my deadlines to accomodate the sock knitting? Thanks!
Added later in response to first comment…
Yeah, yeah, yeah, that pattern in the new Knitty. Not so much. Those are thigh high stockings, done on dpns, and at a heavier gauge than I would ever find comfortable inside a shoe. Very cute, and maybe I’ll make them some day (at a lighter gauge and on two circs) but they’re not at all what I’ve set out to knit this time.
What about the pattern for knee-high socks in the new knitty?
Posted by: Katherine
How fun it will be to knit him some socks that he wants to show off. My guy just doesn’t want to wear them out so he keeps the one pair I knit him in a drawer (and I think secretly pets them).
Posted by: margene
Oh how excellent! I’ll send a note to the clients, this needs to be encouraged. Will you talk to my boss? I have socks to finish and start, too.
LOVE the coat, and am SHOCKED that it hung in the closet for three years. Damn, had I known you last year, I could have taken it off your hands and it could have been mine.
Posted by: valentina
I’m betting that being surrounded by sock yarn wore him down. Heck, I don’t even *live* with you and now I have sock fever.
I’m trying to find a pattern for worsted weight, cabled, knee-length boot socks. Too lazy to make up my own.
Posted by: Iris
My guy is the same way. He owns two sweaters, TWO, and says he already has a hat. (It’s a Dickies beanie.) Sigh. I finally talked him into a sweater by showing the Skully pattern from SnB. From there it was a long road to choosing yarn, colors and shaping (since Skully is like a sack – not appealing). I’m sending offerings to the anti-Curse fairies that he doesn’t dump me when the sweater’s ready.
Please show off your over-the-knee socks when they’re done!
Posted by: Kaetchen
I had to give up caffeine a long time ago so I have no way to keep me up when I’m tired but recently I started talking these effervescent vitamin C tablets in water and I swear they wake me up. It’s way more vitamin C than I need in a day, but it ain’t gonna kill me so I keep taking them. Or everytime someone is tired here, they do a “cure” of magnesium pills for the month. Maybe if this is a chronic thing you should try that. Good luck waking up!
Posted by: kate
A red coat, Ruby red socks, and doc martens with jeans. My kind of gal!! Maybe I should make RubyLoobi red knee high socks as well….
Posted by: Alison
What about the pattern for knee-high socks in the new knitty?
Posted by: Katherine
How fun it will be to knit him some socks that he wants to show off. My guy just doesn’t want to wear them out so he keeps the one pair I knit him in a drawer (and I think secretly pets them).
Posted by: margene
Oh how excellent! I’ll send a note to the clients, this needs to be encouraged. Will you talk to my boss? I have socks to finish and start, too.
LOVE the coat, and am SHOCKED that it hung in the closet for three years. Damn, had I known you last year, I could have taken it off your hands and it could have been mine.
Posted by: valentina
I’m betting that being surrounded by sock yarn wore him down. Heck, I don’t even *live* with you and now I have sock fever.
I’m trying to find a pattern for worsted weight, cabled, knee-length boot socks. Too lazy to make up my own.
Posted by: Iris
My guy is the same way. He owns two sweaters, TWO, and says he already has a hat. (It’s a Dickies beanie.) Sigh. I finally talked him into a sweater by showing the Skully pattern from SnB. From there it was a long road to choosing yarn, colors and shaping (since Skully is like a sack – not appealing). I’m sending offerings to the anti-Curse fairies that he doesn’t dump me when the sweater’s ready.
Please show off your over-the-knee socks when they’re done!
Posted by: Kaetchen
I had to give up caffeine a long time ago so I have no way to keep me up when I’m tired but recently I started talking these effervescent vitamin C tablets in water and I swear they wake me up. It’s way more vitamin C than I need in a day, but it ain’t gonna kill me so I keep taking them. Or everytime someone is tired here, they do a “cure” of magnesium pills for the month. Maybe if this is a chronic thing you should try that. Good luck waking up!
Posted by: kate
A red coat, Ruby red socks, and doc martens with jeans. My kind of gal!! Maybe I should make RubyLoobi red knee high socks as well….
Posted by: Alison
My Billy has requested a cabled scarf. Me: “OK, sure! What colour?” Him: “Gold.” Me: “Uhh…”
I can’t wait to see your ruby reds, even in progress — just want to see that gorgeous yarn knitting up. And I want to knit socks all day, too! I’m beginning to understand why it takes some people years and years to finish an M.A. Obviously it’s because they have given in to the sock-knitting urge.
Posted by: alison
My Billy has requested a cabled scarf. Me: “OK, sure! What colour?” Him: “Gold.” Me: “Uhh…”
I can’t wait to see your ruby reds, even in progress — just want to see that gorgeous yarn knitting up. And I want to knit socks all day, too! I’m beginning to understand why it takes some people years and years to finish an M.A. Obviously it’s because they have given in to the sock-knitting urge.
Posted by: alison