Socks, sock projects and sock aesthetics
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janestarzAfter my last post the final rows of sock were so quickly knitted. I had to stop knitting to type up my notes so I wouldn't forget how to make sense of them, updating my Ravelry Project page with the notes on the big toe and other toe rows and decreases.
(I have no word for it, but toe-sack comes close. It's the part of the sock enveloping the four toes that are not your big toe: index-toe, middle-toe, ring-toe and pinky-toe. In Dutch the index-finger is called "pointing finger" so like I said on Ravelry: "I always point at things with my toes".)
It's rather amazing that I used four different knitting patterns to get to this sock. The base pattern was just a sock recipe with no cuff, heel or toe details, so I made them up.
I added a Fish Lips Kiss heel, a big toe from another pattern and the anatomical toe for the toe sack. And I'm really pleased with the results!
Which brings me to sock aesthetics. Although feet are a pretty weird looking part of the body, some feet in pretty hand-knit socks are dainty and beautiful and sort of weirdly arrow-shaped. Not these, I admit... these are pretty much the clumsiest bunch of toes gathered in a single woolen sack I've seen online. But how much of those aesthetic value do we contribute to something that is exactly what I was looking for?
- I used an interesting pattern
- There was some lovely gradient yarn with an interesting colour scheme.
- I wanted a pair of socks to wear in my Birkenstocks, as I wear these around the house in stead of my shoes. I need something to support my feet, and I don't want to wear my shoes with support soles all day, so the next best thing are these Birkies, but in winter I can't go without socks, so I needed to adjust my socks to work with the Birkies.
- I can show off my warm feet and my mad knitting skillz at the same time.
It might not be, in the strictest sense (or anywhere in this century) be called "fashionable" but they are a combination of several things that I wanted or found pleasing.
Next up is a KAL (knit-along) and we'll be doing the Aragorn sock from Ravelry, a free Dutch top-down sock pattern with already some interesting challenges. But then I ran into an Eowyn sock pattern, and I started thinking about more LOTR-themed sock patterns and....well.. you might see this coming but... IF I can find more LOTR sock patterns, I might just resolve to knit all of them.
And that's all for tonight. Take care on that battlefield and...oh well.... never mind.
(I have no word for it, but toe-sack comes close. It's the part of the sock enveloping the four toes that are not your big toe: index-toe, middle-toe, ring-toe and pinky-toe. In Dutch the index-finger is called "pointing finger" so like I said on Ravelry: "I always point at things with my toes".)
It's rather amazing that I used four different knitting patterns to get to this sock. The base pattern was just a sock recipe with no cuff, heel or toe details, so I made them up.
I added a Fish Lips Kiss heel, a big toe from another pattern and the anatomical toe for the toe sack. And I'm really pleased with the results!
Which brings me to sock aesthetics. Although feet are a pretty weird looking part of the body, some feet in pretty hand-knit socks are dainty and beautiful and sort of weirdly arrow-shaped. Not these, I admit... these are pretty much the clumsiest bunch of toes gathered in a single woolen sack I've seen online. But how much of those aesthetic value do we contribute to something that is exactly what I was looking for?
- I used an interesting pattern
- There was some lovely gradient yarn with an interesting colour scheme.
- I wanted a pair of socks to wear in my Birkenstocks, as I wear these around the house in stead of my shoes. I need something to support my feet, and I don't want to wear my shoes with support soles all day, so the next best thing are these Birkies, but in winter I can't go without socks, so I needed to adjust my socks to work with the Birkies.
- I can show off my warm feet and my mad knitting skillz at the same time.
It might not be, in the strictest sense (or anywhere in this century) be called "fashionable" but they are a combination of several things that I wanted or found pleasing.
Next up is a KAL (knit-along) and we'll be doing the Aragorn sock from Ravelry, a free Dutch top-down sock pattern with already some interesting challenges. But then I ran into an Eowyn sock pattern, and I started thinking about more LOTR-themed sock patterns and....well.. you might see this coming but... IF I can find more LOTR sock patterns, I might just resolve to knit all of them.
And that's all for tonight. Take care on that battlefield and...oh well.... never mind.
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Date: 2015-09-13 10:53 pm (UTC)En de gradient in de wol is echt heel erg tof samen met het schubjes achtige patroon wat je er mee breide. ^__^