Quietish

Finished a pair today (finally!) and cast on the first of another (for Justin, this time). DUDE I have missed knitting socks. Even though I finished the Hedwig Monkeys recently and have had the pair shown below on the needles for weeks, it just hasn’t been ENOUGH. The way I feel tonight, I could be happy breathing sock yarn instead of oxygen. I may stuff a pillowcase with my stash and sleep with it near my head to go along with all of the knitterly dreams I have. Perhaps I’ll wake up with a finished pair if I leave some DPNs on the nightstand.

Ahem, right. Wanna see?

Hermione.
That is a link to the page on hp-lexicon, but you don’t really need to be told who Hermione is right?

Pattern:
Anniversary Socks by Nancy Bush, from Favorite Socks.
Yarn:
Brown Sheep Wildfoote in Blue Blood Red
Comments/Modifications:
Of course there were mods; I can’t ever seem to leave any pattern as is. Letsee. I made the cuffs a coupla inches shorter (for yarn and fit reasons), worked regular wedge toes (the pattern had a very odd toe that I wasn’t remotely interested in), and on the 2nd sock, reversed the lacy part so they’d mirror each other.

I absolutely love almost every pattern in this book, but this was the pattern that jumped out at me right away. There is also a lovely fair isle pattern that I must do at some point. Mmmm.

I chose the name Hermione because these strike me as a somewhat prim and proper, old-fashioned pattern (I think I’m influenced by the fact that Nancy Bush wrote the vintage sock book too) and in my mind Hermione is a little bit old-fashioned and proper. Nothing wrong of that of course. I think it’s rather attractive actually. Her character that is. Well, the socks are too. Ok, I obviously am a little rambly at the moment.

As for the yarn: Isn’t that a fantastic color? I am in love. Happily, I have another pair’s worth of the same color (different dye lot though) in my stash. This was my first time actually using the Wildfoote and I must say I’m impressed. It feels great on the foot and seems like it will wear extremely well.

Joy!