Syd and I went for a walk in the wildflowers to take pictures of knitting. The pattern is Chrysanthemum Frutescens socks by Hunter Hammersen.

While taking the first pictures, I was attacked by small biting flies. I quickly finished and moved on….after standing there and letting them bite me so I could get the shot I wanted. Yes, I’m aware that makes me sound nuts.


I moved on to the white flowers, unwrapping yarn from the cake and tossing the sock blocker into the flowers like a boomerang. It took a few tries, but eventually, I won my odd carnival game.


There is a good chance my neighbors agree with the assessment of me being a bit off. I did, after all, use the free cake to tie the sock to the fence at one point for a pic of the sock with the super tall Texas thistles, but that one didn’t really turn out. See?

You may recall that I was suffering a crisis of indecision recently. I was embarking on the Chrysanthemum Frutescens socks by Hunter Hammersen and had to pick a yarn color. Everyone’s socks I’d seen so far were AMAZING!…but I didn’t want to make light colored socks which would be the sensible thing to do when trying to show off lace. I wanted BOLD socks. I was leaning red or maybe purple. So, I started asking people…and so it was that I asked a good friend of mine his opinion. He loyally reads my blog and is quite smart, so I was interested in his thoughts. R, I said, I just cannot decide. What do you think? Red? or Purple?
He looked at me and blinked, and then he started laughing and it was then that I remembered.
He’s colorblind.
Ladies and gentlemen, I turned Fifty Shades of Red…while he enjoyed a good laugh.

After talking it over with The Husband, who voted green, teal or red, the socks are red.

In the end, I wanted the ankles of my dad’s socks to be as tall as I could make them, so I was working a sock from each end of the cake. For the most part, this was easier to manage than I expected and worked like a charm. TH even thought they might have been a tad too tall, but I decided to just cast off at that point.


And he was kind enough to pose for a photo.

Doesn’t TH make a lovely sock model?

The yarn is Spinning Bunny Merino/Silk in the Sled Dog colorway. The project is raveled here.