Gentleman’s Plain Winter Socks
January 27, 2011 § 1 Comment
A deeply ribbed cuff (46 rounds!),
a swath of stocking stitch in the beautiful and complex Camel Heather,
a Dutch Heel,
gusset decreases,
and a round toe:
Nancy Bush’s Gentleman’s Plain Winter Sock, for a friend who has been promised a pair since this summer,
and who was good enough to send me a few shots of socks-in-action:
and who may or may not have been making a Star Trek joke about them ‘being used in an Enterprise Environment,” I’m not quite certain.
[...] came to visit and casually let it slip that she’d just visited our friend Jay, and that the socks I’d knit him had seen better days (actually, verbatim: “So, I’m supposed to mention to you in a sort [...]