Wednesday, 21 Jun 2006
You might think that I spend all my time fucking around on the Interweb instead of actually doing any knitting. Not true! There are many pots on the stove here at the Kitchener Bitch - and some have been boiling for a long, long time. To spur myself on through the shame of public exposure, soon I’ll put up my latest works in progress here. But first - an actual finished object! Behold the ManlyMan socks, intended as a gift for Mr. KB:
(That’s Floyd, my little devil’s minion hairy monster sweet little kittycat, sniffing the sock - for some reason he thought they were frightening. Do they scare you too?) I called them Manlyman socks because I wanted to assuage any misgivings Mr. KB might have about wearing a “lacy” pattern. As it stands, they’re sort of cable-y looking, and certainly they’re the model of rugged individualism:
Certainly Mr. KB can wear them with his testosterone intact, resting easy in the knowledge that these socks are Not Really Lacy. The yarn is Patons Kroy, in two colors (I ran out at the toe - you know what they say about big feet.)
Update: here’s a pic of Mr. KB’s tootsies in the socks themselves!
June 21st, 2006 at 1:21 pm
Well, dahlink. Mightyfine socks there. Will Mr. KB be modelling them for us? Humm?
June 21st, 2006 at 2:04 pm
Big feet= big socks?
Well done!
June 21st, 2006 at 2:45 pm
I love the socks, good job! But…and I don’t want to say anything negative because I really really like ‘em, but I hope Mr. KB doesn’t come home bruised and bloody from defending his manliness when somebody taunts him about the lace look. I’m just sayin’
June 21st, 2006 at 5:18 pm
Nice manly socks! Congratulations on preserving his masculinity. hee hee!
June 21st, 2006 at 8:42 pm
I love the lace pattern! Are they grayish-brown or reddish-brown?
June 21st, 2006 at 9:03 pm
they’re grayish brown, with a bluish gray toe. It’s yarn I got from my fabulous SP6 pal!
June 22nd, 2006 at 1:07 pm
I like you because you use words like Assuage and Misgivings. Mighty snazzy socks too, by the way.
June 27th, 2006 at 8:53 pm
Good lord, those socks are an overload of manliness!
Actually the pattern looks vaguely like a pair I did for my mother—shhhh! Don’t let him know that!
July 13th, 2006 at 8:00 pm
Those socks not only look sufficiently manly, but they look good on the boy and I like the contrast between the toe and the foot. Sometimes accidents are fortuitous opportunities.