Smoke

Of course, when I started the Smoke Socks – named after the colourway of The Knittery chubby sock – I had no idea there were bushfires in Victoria’s future. In fact, at that time we were having an unusually cool and wet summer.

Now that Melbourne is shrouded in an ashy haze, turning the sunlight a dirty orange, the name seems somewhat appropriate. They fit well and are beautiful in their simplicity.

On a brighter note, now that I’ve finished these socks I can receive my first personal sock yarn club yarn delivery. I selected a bag from my felt bin and was pleased to find the contents were exactly what I wanted to work on next:

Generous leftovers from a sock I made not long after learning to knit socks, but which never fit quite right. Now I can make a replacement pair that fit properly. So I got started by knitting the toe on the train last night.

8 thoughts on “Smoke

  1. Love the selection. I’ve been working on baby socks and a pair of footies for a friend at work. My daughter used to live in Melbourne, about a year ago. She worked for a man who had a huge trucking company. I think they made semi-trucks. She tended his private yacht.

  2. Those socks are great – love the smokey colour. How do you do your toes? You are such a quick knitter – much like a knitting machine but better :).

    Stay well!

  3. jomamma – that sounds like a very swish job!

    Lisa – I’m knitting plain old socks, this time with a short row heel. I have high arches so I usually increase at the sides as if I’m doing a heel flap for five st, then do the short row heel.

    rebecca – I do my toes with a Turkish cast on (a bit like the figure 8 cast on) then increase at the sides every row until I have 32 st, then every other until I have 56 st (I have narrow feet).

    Plain socks are SO much faster!

  4. Swish = kinda glamorous – or at least sounds like it despite the reality. I imagine looking after a yacht could have a grotty side, despite sounding like a lot of fun.

  5. Oh, my daughter… it’s not really ‘swishy’ it’s more like a live in maid, bar-tender, deck hand, security guard kind of job. On the boat in Oz she mostly lived aboard to keep other people from coming on it when the owners weren’t using it. The owners lived on the far side of Melbourne and only used the boat once or twice a month. She had to wash and dry it everyday and she said that got old. And also get everything ready when they called to say they were coming to use it. Always at their beck and call. But there are loads of perks. By working as a private stewardess she get’s to see lots of places in the world. Right now she’s back in the US, Key West Fla. Check out her blog, it’s linked from my Backyard blog… the Gypsy Pirate one.

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