Knitting through Nancy Bush’s Folk Socks: WIPs and UFOs
Experiment House is very much a work in progress, but the living room/dining room is the most finished. The living room, a.k.a. the “community room,” is a pale blue that is thoroughly washed out in the picture below. The dining room is formed by an alcove and a couple of spot walls, which we finished … More Seeing Blue
I read/look at the photo-rific sustainable-farmy blog posts of fellow Marylander McKenzie whenever she posts them. She takes these scrummy pictures of wherever she’s working/whatever she’s eating that are transporting in their loveliness. So when I finally got around to making squash flower quesadillas the other night, I brought my camera with me. Every summer … More Summer Socks and Summer Squash
Presented in list form, to save you the headache you’d probably get if you were to look for order in this series of half-coherent thoughts. 1 ) Whenever my husband walks into the living room at whatever unrighteous hour of the night to find out why I am there and not in bed, he always … More Thoughts from 1:39 a.m.
With a little extra effort and about eight inches of welted ribbing, June’s socks are done, only three days late. Pattern Review: This pattern, “Country Socks,” from Folk Socks, has some secret charm to it. On the needles and off the foot, they appear composed of a plain, wide rib. But put them on a … More Socks with a Secret
So…. It’s not June anymore. But my June socks still look like this: There’s no getting around it; I really didn’t make it this time. And it’s not because I didn’t have enough knitting time, or because a single thing went wrong in the knitting or the pattern. It wasn’t even because I don’t like … More June-ly
This day, the 27th of June, is the first day you’ve seen June’s socks. This is at least partially because I didn’t start these socks until around June 18th. In a lame attempt to make up for their relative invisibility, yesterday I took pictures of the sadly still singular June Sock all over town. Outside … More Oh right, June.
“You shall know the truth, and the truth shall make you strange.” – Phil Harrold, att. Leander Harding, att. Flannery O’Connor. Knitting again has been… strange. The “normal” people who surround me interpret my relationship with knitting as somewhere in between an obsession and a lifestyle choice, and I’m not even sure where I’d categorize … More Strangeness
We interrupt this regularly scheduled blog post series to bring you an update on another blog post series – that is, my self-imposed sock club knitting through Nancy Bush’s Folk Socks. If you’re just tuning into this wobsite, I’ve been at this since last June, knitting a pair a month in no particular order, and … More March Mischeif
Appearances can be deceiving. Jared told me once that humans are extraordinarily bad at estimating relative volume. You know this if you’ve ever had to dirty three tupperwares because you wrongly estimated the size you would need for your half-pan of pasta sauce. It turns out this is also true of body parts. When I … More Ordinary Loveliness
Valentine’s day – I mean Cyril and Methodius day, since St. Valentine has been extricated from the official Roman calendar of saints – Goodness, that means it’s halfway through February. Good thing I’m more than halfway through February’s socks. They’re the “Latvian Stockings” from Folk Socks by Nancy Bush. This is a month where the … More Zzzzzzzz.
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