Finished-Object Knitblogging!

Voila. My new favorite socks:

Yarn: 1 skein each (163 yards) "Salsa" from Dalis Davidson's Dancing Leaf Farm.

Pattern: Sockbug's River Rapids, needles: #1 Addi Turbo circs. The little squiggles of yarn to either side are all that was left over from each skein. Heading down the toe on the first one gave me some minor agita, knowing how little I had left. This is knitting on the edge, people!

The one possible fly in my warm, colorful, beautiful sock ointment is the mohair content. I, my friends, am allergic to mohair. I discovered this as a teen, having spent an afternoon napping under a friend's mohair throw. Where the light, airy, treacherously innocent-looking mohair had draped across my chin, I had a rash that felt like wasp and mosquito had been genetically combined in some sort of unholy wasquito hybrid of hell and sent to give me a beard of punishment.

Having fallen deeply, madly, heedlessly in love with the color in this yarn, I decided to take the plunge, figuring my feet were far less sensitive than my face. There has been a bit of telltale itching at the ankles, though, and I am slightly worried. But that was prior to washing and blocking. So. Hope springs eternal that there was just pre-washing slight prickliness and my own worry causing a worry overload cascade in my brain that made me think the itching was allergy-related.

Shut up. Leave me to my fantasies.

And look at this color:

Wouldn't you run a little mad for this if you were me?

Posted: Friday - May 26, 2006 at 06:53 PM | |