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December 07, 2007
What do I care... I've got my handspun handknit socks to keep me warm
Zzzzzzzzzzzzzzz. Huh? Wha? Is it just me or is anyone else sleeping really badly and therefore constantly exhausted? I'm sitting in the café as I often do on Friday mornings (I LOOOOOOVE MY BABYSITTER) and I'm trying to convince myself to work but having a bit of difficulty. I could knit something for my cousin's soon-to-be-born or I could work on a sweater pattern that I want to get going on again. Instead, I'm imagining going home and going to bed to watch crappy tv. I don't have a tv in my bedroom, so that's not even possible. As long as I'm fantasizing, let's throw in a masseuse and a maid who will have the house sparkling when I am done with my nap. Enough rambling. SOCKS! HANDSPUN, HANDKNIT SOCKS! (Did that get your attention?)
The roving is from Julia and it made the softest, cushiest, loveliest yarn which makes the softest, smooshiest, yummiest socks. I knit them toe up at the same time to use up every last bit of yarn I could. I finished them at the opening of Ariadne (scroll down for a photo of my feet at the opening).
Posted by kate at December 7, 2007 09:12 AM
Comments
those are the most beautiful socks!!! really. we all see a lot of socks and they are beautiful but those are the most beautiful.
when you're done with the maid and the massage guy can you send them over to my house?
Posted by: michele at December 12, 2007 03:23 PM
That got my attention! The socks are indeed beautiful, and the yarn alone was pretty, too!
Posted by: Worsted Knitt at December 11, 2007 04:56 PM
Kate, they are beautiful!!! makes me what to sell all my sock yarn and only spin the yarn for my socks! (okay, not really!) Really awesome job, love'um!
Posted by: Julia at December 10, 2007 09:22 AM
Beautiful socks. And sleeping? No, I don't do that much these days. And what happened to last week? The week during which we were supposed to hang out? I suck.
Posted by: alison at December 10, 2007 01:13 AM
It is all about arts! The spinning as well as the knitting. Beautiful!
Posted by: Jacqueline at December 9, 2007 09:34 AM
The roving became such pretty yarn, which in turn became such pretty socks!
Posted by: Shelley at December 9, 2007 06:41 AM
those socks are so pretty.
yeah i spend my friday mornings trying to work but failing miserably.
Posted by: maryse at December 8, 2007 07:01 PM
I love those socks so much!!!!
Posted by: Jennifer at December 8, 2007 02:36 PM
Thoroughly inspiring. I keep thinking I need to spin "better" before I do something like this. You are fearless, and I need to adopt that.
Posted by: Laurie at December 8, 2007 07:16 AM
Gorgeous!!!
Posted by: Anne at December 7, 2007 11:20 PM
Those are beautiful! And how fun to have made them all the way from the roving on up!
I completely agree with the sleepless and exhausted thing. Everyone I know is feeling that way, it seems. Must be something in the air. Or lack of daylight. The solstice is only 2 weeks away!
Posted by: Erica at December 7, 2007 10:52 PM
Love the handspun and socks! Is that Julia's BFL in the colorway "Cheerful"?
Posted by: Manise at December 7, 2007 10:33 PM
Beautiful socks! I love the ways the colours work together.
Posted by: Sharon at December 7, 2007 09:10 PM
Love them, Kate! What a terrific job you did with the spinning.
Posted by: Kathy at December 7, 2007 08:42 PM
I'm the same with the sleeping. Last night I went to bed at 9:30 pm because I literally couldn't keep my eyes open, then woke up at 11:30 and C, who had just gone to bed, asked me what I was doing and I mumbled "morning stuff" until I realized that it was only 11:30, so I went back to bed, then woke up again at 4 am. I'm really tired and trying really hard NOT to go to sleep at 9 pm tonight.
Posted by: Miriam at December 7, 2007 08:08 PM
lovely, Kate! handspun-handknit socks are the best! :)
Posted by: jess at December 7, 2007 06:38 PM
ooh, i love these socks so so much. the colors worked out so beautifully!! makes me a little braver w/ my handspun.
Posted by: meowgirl at December 7, 2007 03:12 PM
Oh my goodness. Those are stunning, at every step of the process! I especially love the yarn close-up (mmm colors). Beautiful!
Posted by: Christina at December 7, 2007 03:09 PM
Pretty! And yay for "free" time to knit (and spin) :)
Posted by: connie at December 7, 2007 03:09 PM
