{"id":1274,"date":"2010-07-28T18:22:51","date_gmt":"2010-07-28T18:22:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thedomesticsoundscape.com\/wordpress\/?p=1274"},"modified":"2010-07-28T18:48:22","modified_gmt":"2010-07-28T18:48:22","slug":"fo-shimmer-socks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thedomesticsoundscape.com\/wordpress\/?p=1274","title":{"rendered":"FO: Shimmer Socks"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Ah, fine, <em>finished<\/em> socks in <a href=\"http:\/\/www.skeinqueen.co.uk\/blissfuldet.html\">Skeinqueen Blissful Yarn<\/a>&#8230; how I love you.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/farm5.static.flickr.com\/4085\/4837440349_891590d5ee_o.jpg?resize=411%2C611\" alt=\"\" width=\"411\" height=\"611\" \/><\/p>\n<p>How I wish that my unsatisfying phone-camera photo could adequately convey your truly beautiful colours, which remind me of the wild plants crowding the verges beside the A4074, and all the greens I&#8217;ve noticed lately on my walks;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/farm5.static.flickr.com\/4112\/4838058748_8db1d965c9_o.jpg?resize=411%2C612\" alt=\"\" width=\"411\" height=\"612\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Or the sweet detail of your stitches; (It&#8217;s the <a href=\"http:\/\/nepenthe.blog-city.com\/shimmer_sock_free_pattern.htm\">Shimmer Sock<\/a> pattern, by Meg Croft, and it is satisfying and easy to knit, and it brings out the best in a variegated yarn like this one.)<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/farm5.static.flickr.com\/4103\/4838076482_274ef93b4e_z.jpg?resize=411%2C614\" alt=\"\" width=\"411\" height=\"614\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Or the mods of which I feel justly proud: (afterthought heel for ease of replacement, gussets added in for good fit around the ankle, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.knitty.com\/ISSUEfall09\/FEATjssbo.php\">super-stretchy BO courtesy of Jeny<\/a>.)<\/p>\n<p>Oh fine socks, soft socks, UK yarn socks&#8230; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.blueleicester.co.uk\/\">Blue Faced Leicester<\/a> socks, locally-dyed socks, socks that remind me of walking through yellow\/green fields. I am very pleased with you! You remind me of the field near Warborough with blue-ish wheat on one side and golden barley on the other. Of course now everything in that field has been sunbleached to gold, but in June &#8211; when I started knitting you &#8211; you looked just like it.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/farm2.static.flickr.com\/1272\/4697762294_ee8ce66b1b_z.jpg?resize=411%2C308\" alt=\"\" width=\"411\" height=\"308\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">Socks for around the A4074 knit in between walks around the A4074.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">Ravelled <a title=\"Ravelry link\" href=\"http:\/\/www.ravelry.com\/projects\/Felix\/shimmer-socks\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ah, fine, finished socks in Skeinqueen Blissful Yarn&#8230; how I love you. 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