Dotty socks? Socks with the pox? Poxy socks? A pox on socks!
Squeaking in under the wire at the very last minute for the month again, I present this month’s pair of socks… kinda fun, huh? I absolutely love them retroactively. While I was actually making them, hmmm, not so much! I really struggled to get into these ones, funnily enough. I liked the turquoise yarn with colourful flecks very much at first, but it rapidly became quite blah and too subtle to my eyes. I felt it really lacked a certain necessary “something”, and I discovered some of that something when I laid the ball of bright yellow yarn against it. Drab to fab in one fell swoop! I experimented with several different ways of getting the yellow in there somewhere, but (obviously) in the end settled on embroidering random dots of various sizes here and there. This gave exactly the fun and quirky look I craved, but was surprisingly difficult to get them looking neat, owing I think to the fact that the yarns were of completely different gauge. This discrepancy can be seen most clearly in the heels and toes, where the yellow looks quite “puffy” and plumped up compared to the much finer turquoise yarn. Yeah, it’s funny-looking but still, I love it.
I only had time to embroider a sprinkling of the dots around the top few inches of sock; but if I get some more time -which seems very unlikely – I may add some more “pox”…
Pattern; my usual plain Jane favourite, from a Patons 60s pamphlet with my own modifications
Yarns: flecked turquoise is Opal “Relief” sock yarn, colour 9494; with a yellow Piccolo multi-purpose craft yarn, made in Japan. Both yarns purchased in Japan during our recent holiday there
oh hey there my lovely little photobomber… must be close to dinner time, mmmm?
The box of socks is looking a bit squished, but pretty!
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