Two more socks

I do have a lot of socks I am working on.

(I know this photo is dark, I didn't realize I had the flash turned off)



Elegant Socks - a Nancy Bush pattern based on an old pair of Norwegian stockings in the Vesterheim (? I think) museum. I'm using an alpaca sock yarn. They're knit on size 0 needles, which means it makes a very dense fabric, but also it takes a long time. I just started the heel flap last night.

And these are a pair of "just simple socks" knit of some self-patterning yarn. I'm a big sucker for the self-striping or self-patterning yarn. These are Opal, which is not the nicest softest sock yarn ever, but the colors are interesting:



This is from their "rainforest" line (I think they are defining "rainforest" increasingly loosely now, though). Supposedly these colors were inspired by the coloration on a giraffe. (All the "rainforest" patterns are inspired by animals). I think it's a little darker than what I think of as "giraffe colors."

But still, I'm thinking of them as my "tiny little giraffe socks." Because of that Direct TV ad...the one with the Russian guy who has "opulence" and who owns a tiny lap giraffe. (It's funny, almost everyone I've mentioned that ad to has exclaimed over the tiny giraffe. There is just something very appealing about that tiny giraffe. I was actually thinking the other day if there was some way a person could make an amigurumi tiny giraffe...I think a big part of the appeal, though, is the giraffes in that ad were not at all cartoonish, just (whatever the video equivalent of photoshopping is) scaled-down real giraffes. I could kind of see modifying the "tiny pony" pattern (smaller head and longer neck) but it still would be fatter and clunkier and not quite as delicate.)

Also, this could apply to the printer in my department:


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