Embossed Leaves Socks
I’m knitting the Embossed Leaves Socks by Mona Schmidt from the Winter 2005 issue of Interweave Knits, using Art Yarns Supermerino in the romantically named SM115 colorway. (It deserves to be dubbed “Rubaiyat” or anything other than an alphanumeric code.)
I do love knitting with the Supermerino; at a light-worsted weight, the 100 percent merino wool is buttery-soft and pliable—almost the antithesis of the cold steel of the knitting needles. The pattern’s no slouch either. Watching the little leaves reveal themselves with every row continues to amaze me.
The first sock of Nancy Bush’s Fancy Silk Socks was finally bound off last week, but I’ll have to block it before I take any pictures. You know how lace tends to be—it’s one big, blobby mass until the alchemy of water, air, and wool works its magic. Until then, it’ll be my ugly little orphan duckling, with a bow-necked swan bursting to get out.
Comrade Chekhov, why aren’t you plowing the fields? No borscht for you.
Have you met Fred, undercover kitten and Brooklyn’s favorite son? My Chekhov is a native Queens boy and kitty defender of the proletariat. (Okay, not really, but I’d like to think so.) Anyway, he demands lubbins.
