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January 8, 2006
Leafy Feet are a Treat
A word about socks.
It's funny that I have come to love knitting socks - as well as come to love wearing them. Through high school my Mom would chase after me begging and pleading for me to put a pair on when it was cold. I just hated them! I wore all my winter shoes sans socks and half the time had a pair of birkenstocks on with bare tootsies. Can't explain it... Something about socks just really irritated me. Eventually after a few years of refusing foot covers, I put a pair on one day and VA VA VOOM! I fell in love. :) So comfy! So warm! What the hell had I been thinking?!?!
Learning to knit them has rekindled the sock love all over again. I give you the Embossed Leaves Socks official photo shoot....
Full frontal. (I'm sure to get some good Google searches off of that phrase, no?)
"Ain't we some sexy bitches?" - Embossed Leaves Socks, The Scissor Kitchen, January '06
And what's a photo shoot without my little cronies? Here's one butting in now...
And a nice shot of my entire audience. Gotta love that whenever you move, at least two thirds of the household follows at your nicely dressed heels. (Incidentally, this pic shows the colors of the yarn to their truest.)
Embossed Leaves by Mona Schmidt, IWK Winter 2005
Yarn: Trekking XXL in Autumn Stripes
Needles: US2, Crystal Palace circulars
Comments: Well, I knit these suckers fast! 8 days - I think that's a record for me with socks. No second sock syndrome this time, folks! I really liked this pattern - the lace pattern wasn't too hard but still kept my interest. (Well, duh. If I knit them in a week flat, I guess I never got bored.) The only modification I made was one less lace repeat on the foot to keep them from being humongous.
Posted by Sarah at January 8, 2006 10:07 PM
Posted to getting knitty
Comments
Great looking socks! I'm really enjoying the picture of your cat sniffing your foot...it looks so suspicious.
Posted by: Jenn at January 9, 2006 3:48 AM
i'm working on these too!! but i'm really taking my time on them. i JUST hit the heel on my first.
Posted by: gleek at January 9, 2006 10:29 AM
Hooray! Those look great! I can't wait to start knittin' up my first pair of socks! Sooooon... Soooon...
Posted by: Heather at January 9, 2006 10:49 AM
awesome socks! I need to get me some of that trekking to add to my ever growing sock yarn stash... :)
Posted by: Karen at January 9, 2006 10:54 AM
they are simply lovely! nice work.
Posted by: carrie m at January 9, 2006 11:27 AM
I love them - great pattern and wonderful color. 8 days you say? wow it's taken me a month to ALMOST finish my Jaywalkers!
Posted by: Marie at January 9, 2006 11:52 AM
I'm working on these too. Gave up on the ol' Jaywalkers for a bit. My poor yarn and needle choices ticked me off.
I have a question though...I knit in the throw method, but left handed. Does this mean the following?
1) I should follow the chart starting on the left side?
2) All the "left slanting decreases" I should change to "right slanting decreases" and vice versa?
Any idea of what I mean?
Posted by: Skylar at January 9, 2006 5:10 PM
I've just cast on for my Embossed Leaves Socks, and dindn't even think of Trekking! Yours look so gorgeous! Now I almost wish that I chose that yarn instead...
Great job on these!
Posted by: Faith at June 10, 2006 11:59 AM