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<\/a><\/p>\nWhen I first started knitting socks, I made a lot of Monkeys<\/a>. It’s an easy-peasy pattern that works well with hand-dyed yarns, so when I came to this skein of Blue Moon Fiber Arts Socks That Rock Light (a club colorway from 2014, Hope Springs Eternal), I fell back on an old favorite. What can I say, I’ve been in a retro kind of mood of late, repeats all over the place. Like here:<\/p>\n I generally try to make the Husband-Dude a pair of socks a year, in his favorite cotton-blend sock yarn (Sock Candy from Blue Moon Fiber Arts). So this year I went with classic black, and despite having to rip them back to the foot and re-knit them after I gifted them to him because I’d managed to make them WAY too long, they were a treat. Pattern is Paul Atwell Socks<\/a>, another repeat from several years ago when I made a pair for my grandad. I haven’t bothered to photograph them, just because a) they’re black and there’s no point, and b) they’re being worn so frequently it’s almost impossible to catch them in transit.<\/p>\n Yup, another repeat. I knit the first pair for a swap many moons ago, and never forgot how much I lurved the pattern. So when Giftmas arrived this year, and a serendipitous yarn swap put this crazy happy neon stuff in my grasp, my head went, “PIA!” and then it went, “MAELSTROM!<\/a>”<\/p>\n And that concludes the backlog of socks from 2016, as well as this round of repeats.<\/p>\n #4: Fika<\/p>\n There’s a thing in Sweden they call fika, which is basically a coffee break with a little snack you are supposed to take with friends or coworkers in the midafternoon. I learned on my trip last May that they take it very, very seriously. This pattern is (you guessed it) Fika<\/a> from the Spring 2015 issue of Pom Pom Quarterly. They’re super-simple socks with a cute little stripe detail on the toe, so I knit them up in a very Swedish sort of blue and used a twist of BMFA Socks That Rock for the colorful little stripe. While I didn’t love this pattern as written, I think I will probably mod it and make it a million times. These were the January\/February pair I’d queued for the 2017 installment of the SISC.<\/p>\n We just started carrying Primrose Yarn Co. at the shop, and these were knit up in their Luscious Sock base, color Dream Warriors. When I saw the color, it immediately brought to mind a dear friend, and the color name just clinched it. A basic toe-up formula sock with mistake rib on the instep and leg to keep it interesting and show off the crazy colors. Again, I was so excited to gift these that I neglected to take a photo like a goofball. But hey, that’s me. Goofball extraordinaire.<\/p>\n And this concludes our sock digest.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" It’s been a good long while since I showed you some socks. And I’ve actually made a handful of pairs, so let’s have a little coffee and catch up, why not? #1: More Monkeys When I first started knitting socks, I made a lot of Monkeys. It’s an easy-peasy pattern that works well with hand-dyed yarns, so when I came to this skein of Blue Moon Fiber Arts Socks That.. Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[19,61,76],"class_list":["post-1040","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-knitting","tag-finished-objects","tag-self-imposed-sock-club-2016","tag-self-imposed-sock-club-2017"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/missaudrey.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1040","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/missaudrey.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/missaudrey.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/missaudrey.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/missaudrey.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1040"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/missaudrey.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1040\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1078,"href":"http:\/\/missaudrey.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1040\/revisions\/1078"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/missaudrey.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1040"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/missaudrey.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1040"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/missaudrey.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1040"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}#2: Inkwell Socks<\/h4>\n
#3: Rainbow Maelstrom<\/h4>\n
<\/a><\/p>\n<\/a><\/p>\n#5: Dream Warriors<\/h4>\n