{"id":566,"date":"2010-12-10T13:54:34","date_gmt":"2010-12-10T21:54:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/gknerd.com\/?p=566"},"modified":"2010-12-10T13:54:34","modified_gmt":"2010-12-10T21:54:34","slug":"566","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.gknerd.com\/?p=566","title":{"rendered":"So Many Socks"},"content":{"rendered":"

It’s been rather cold here lately, which means that I’ve been reveling in my hand-knit sock collection.\u00a0 When I was doing laundry the other week (and, er, it had been a while since the last time I’d done laundry…) I was struck by something.<\/p>\n

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I have a lot<\/em> of hand-knit socks.\u00a0 It was 18 pair in the laundry that day – there are more in the total collection, but the rest don’t get to see the light of day that much (mostly because they’re made with cotton, like Sockotta, and thus I find them wildly uncomfortable to walk on).<\/p>\n

The other thing I noticed is that I tend to reuse patterns.\u00a0 I’m not just talking about my standard sock formula (although there’s a few of those in the pile), I’m talking about things like Pomatomus<\/a>.<\/p>\n

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What is the plural of Pomatomus, anyway?\u00a0 Pomatomi?\u00a0 Pomatomuses?\u00a0 Regardless, I liked this pattern so much, I knit it three times.\u00a0 I think the funniest part about that is the designer of Pomatomus, Cookie A<\/a>, allegedly only knit one of them, and thus found a single mannequin leg to display it with sensationally.\u00a0 (I say “allegedly” because even though I swear I read about this in both Cookie A’s blog and the Yarn Harlot<\/a>‘s, I can’t seem to find either entry.\u00a0 I may<\/em> have dreamed it up, although I like to think I usually have more exciting dreams than that…)<\/p>\n

It’s not just Pomatomuses, though – I’ve got two Hourglass<\/a>es as well.<\/p>\n

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I don’t always follow the pattern, as you might notice if you compare the ribbing between the two socks.\u00a0 The purple is more like the original pattern, while the green sports a k1tbl p1 rib – flows much better into the hourglass pattern, in my opinion.\u00a0 I love the way these socks fit, though, and they seem to knit up super quick, so I expect I’ll be making a few more of these in my lifetime.<\/p>\n

I’ve also got a couple examples of the Garden Party Socks (a.k.a. the sock I’m designing right now<\/a>).<\/p>\n

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The top is a made out of a skein of Meilenweit, and frankly is about the worst choice I could have made for the project.\u00a0 The bottom is Trekking XXL, and embodies everything I love about both the pattern and Trekking.\u00a0 Trekking tends to make just about everything better.<\/p>\n

In somewhat related news, I’ve let the Blanket Thief<\/a> know that I want sock blockers for Christmas.\u00a0 If I’m lucky, maybe my sock pictures will improve quite a bit in the new year.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

It’s been rather cold here lately, which means that I’ve been reveling in my hand-knit sock collection.\u00a0 When I was doing laundry the other week (and, er, it had been a while since the last time I’d done laundry…) I was struck by something. I have a lot of hand-knit socks.\u00a0 It was 18 pair […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[33],"class_list":["post-566","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-socks"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gknerd.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/566","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gknerd.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gknerd.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gknerd.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gknerd.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=566"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.gknerd.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/566\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gknerd.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=566"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gknerd.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=566"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gknerd.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=566"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}