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Me: We should be friends. Want to go to a hockey game TONIGHT?!?
Her: Yes?
I think she said yes because she was a little scared to say no. Coming in hot is pretty on brand for me.
She recently observed that in my romance shorts, my couples meet, connect, and immediately decide they are soulmates before living happily ever after.
And she was all “Wait, that’s kind of fast…but that is how Katie rolls.”
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I generally knit brightly colored socks. Brightly colored yarn just calls my name. But, every once in a while, I’m wearing an outfit that calls for gray or black socks, so I needed to knit some. I mentioned this to Hunter Hammersen one day via her blog and she voted gray. I also mentioned my plan to Bonita (the soon to be owner of the Zombie socks) and she said, “I think I recall you knitting some black socks at some point and hating it enough that even I was scarred….don’t you think that means something?”
It does. If Bonita and Hunter both vote gray, then gray socks I shall have!
Pattern: Linaria Bipartita Socks by Hunter Hammersen
Yarn: The Plucky Knitter Primo Fingering
Colorway: Elegant Elephant
LAST CALL!
If you have yet to buy Hunter’s most recent book, there’s still a discount and free pattern special if you go buy it right this second! What are you waiting for?!? There’s a great group of folks doing a Knit-a-Long on ravelry soon and you don’t want to miss out on all the fun!
Ps. To see what other folks are working on, go check out Tami’s Amis and Frontier Dreams and Small Things.
Tags: Elegant Elephant, hunter hammersen, Keep Calm - Craft On, Linaria Bipartita Socks, Plucky Knitter Primo Fingering, The Plucky Knitter, WIP Wednesday, Yarn Along
well, they are lovely. that pattern is just so fantastic. :)
I concur. fantastic.
WOW. I love these. The pattern looks great in that color.
thanks. The Husband voted orange, but I really needed some more subdued socks.
I used to knit crazy colored socks exclusively, but now I almost only buy neutral and/or solid colored skeins. It’s nice to mix things up every once in a while.
Indeed….and I have a lot of gray yarn, so gray socks were inevitable.
I was organizing my stash the other week and I gave real, serious consideration to dividing it into ‘grayish and not grayish.’ It would have been as good an organizing method as any other…about half in each!
There are an infinite number of ways to organize a stash, of that, I am certain.
the grey socks are stunning!!
Thank you so much!
I honestly think you could knit anything and it would be sheer perfection…no matter the color.
I do like that gray though.
And well, if Bonita said gray…I’d do the gray.
You’re pretty fab.
I can’t see you voting gray, you’re a pretty BRIGHT person….you know, the kind of person that makes Rainbow Brite seem dull. and boring.
They look pretty fabulous! Beautiful pattern. Can’t wait to see them hit the wardrobe rotation. Except then…..in order to be all matchy matchy, I will have to knit myself gray socks. I guess that isn’t such a hardship. :-)
Thank you!….if I can knit a sock a week remains to be seen, but I’m giving it the old college try!
Your sock is lovely! Gray is a favorite color of mine:)
Thank you. I love gray – matches everything!
Gray is so much easier to knit with, especially for socks with a pattern. Those look like they are going to be great to wear with anything (well, almost anything).
almost anything? what are you thinking, lady? :)
For a second I was like “wow, how skinny is her leg, how baggy is that sock?!” Thank goodness that’s not the case. :) Looking good! Maybe I’ll join in one of these KALs…
ha! I was being lazy – a can of soup was too big. I settled for pasta.
That does look like a nice pattern for a sock in a subdued colour, though I do like a little grey. Enjoy your lovely sock.
The pattern is lovely….the more I knit of it, the better I like it.
I was proud not to have broken down into wild sobs when I saw it. Kinda made me a little sick. Thanks for reading and commenting. The gray socks are lovely – I love that book!
You should check off personal growth on your to do list for today. You’re a good sport!
I have the same tendency towards the crazy yarns, but that gray has some lovely intonations.
Yes, Plucky Knitter yarn has great depth.
My grandmother taught me how to knit.
I remember the one thing she told me not to do when knitting. She said to me “no matter how much you want to never knit with black yarn unless you absolutely have too.”
Years later I was sitting in her house swearing as I was knitting with black yarn. She just looked at me and said “what did your grandmother tell you?”
Point taken grandma, point taken.
To this day I do not knit with black yarn very often. Usually when I do it is in some bulky yarn that I am making some formless hat or scarf so I am not having to really think about things.