my precious new socks

So this is actually the 4th skein of expensive merino sock yarn I've bought (Tosh Sock, Malabrigo Sock, Zen Yarn Garden Serenity 20 which is 20% cashmere as well, and now Hedgehog Fibres Sock), but it's the first one I've used to make socks. I finished them yesterday.

And these socks have changed my life, so consider my previous discussion of how to make ideal replacements for chenille socks obsolete.


cimness' Vestigial

(The previous skeins were used to make hats for me & my dad, and most recently for these incredible gloves that waxjism made me:)


It might seem silly that that wasn't one of the first things I tried, but these yarns have a fair amount of twist, so while they're much silkier than a typical sock yarn (and we have plenty of socks made from those), they didn't seem, when not in sock form, like they would remotely replace the softness and plushness of chenille furry socks, because they're kind of firm and a bit dense in comparison to the typical soft low-twist single-ply yarns.

But they do! The individual stitches are each soft and silky and the texture of them on the feet is nubbly and caressing at the same time. I never want to take them off. They're amazing.

My new dilemma is that making this pair of socks took 9 days, and I want about 10 of them; plus a skein of this shit is > 20€ (that's a bit more than a pair, but less than 2 pairs).

non-newtonian plot dynamics

‘The plot doesn’t exactly thicken but it far from dilutes, wouldn’t you say?’

‘It curdles,’ I said.

— Catriona McPherson, Dandy Gilver and a Bothersome Number of Corpses