socks, Socks, soCKs, and SoCks

The Country Girl Socks are done, and another notch goes on my sock knitting belt. Toot-toot! After completion of this gorgeous lacy number I realized "hey, these look kinda like the leaf lace socks that took me all of 6 months to finish, did I just knit the same pair of socks again (except this time in red)?". Sort of. Not really. Maybe with some minor differences. I don't know. It's kind of like when one goes shopping, and one tends to gravitate towards certain styles and colors of apparel, then upon coming home to neatly hang the newly procured clothing items one comes to realize that said purchases closely resemble other previously bought items. No?

But anyway...check out the Country Girl Socks. And, moreover...check out the awesome sock blockers (my purpose primarily for photo ops rather than actual sock blocking). Pretty cool huh? Thanks to Wendy of Wendy Knits and her inspiring purchase a few weeks ago, I too was tempted to track down ChappieWoman on eBay and found her store Chappy's Fiber Arts and Crafts. There I chose 2 sets of sock blockers, one small with a sheep knockout carving, and one medium with a lightning bolt knockout carving. Hand made and very cool, a necessary luxury for any sock knitter with only two hands and who's sick of taking sock pictures using their feet as models hence causing a warp in camera perspective which makes all self taken sock on feet pictures look very cankle-ish. Cankle-ish: adj. (Kang-cull-ish). a physical state wherein the calves of the legs do not taper into ankles then the feet, rather the calves of the legs go directly to the feet. a pair of legs having no defined end of the calf area as well as no defined beginning of the ankle area. having no ankles.

Cankles



Country Girl Socks
Heartstring Fibers Pattern
Schaeffer Yarns, superwash, "Anne" colorway

Check out the lil' sheep on the sock blocker

Now that the Country Girl Socks have been completed I move on to the previously cast on Jaywalkers in Cascade Fixation. And then, I decide that the pattern doesn't call out to this yarn. I don't know what it is but there wasn't a whole lot of knitterly joy being produced while knitting this sock. So, I frogged it, and now I'm trying for the 14th time to knit something, a sock, something, out of this beautiful yarn. Hopefully Sock bug's Sheri's Lace Socks which can be found here will work.

During this entire sock fiasco which is way far from over, I found that in switching back and forth between different socks I have cast on in different yarns that I really prefer knitting with wool. I like the hand of the wool and I like the consistency of its stretch, it is a very supple fiber whereas cotton and cotton blends (such as Cascade Fixation) don't have as much give and is not very forgiving when stretching hence the reason I had to put the Jaywalkers on a break and save the pattern for some wooly yarn.