Protection against the worryingly high rate of sock theft reported nationwide.
(Downside, you have to wear your pants awfully high if you want anyone to see your initials...)
Showing posts with label socks. Show all posts
Showing posts with label socks. Show all posts
Monday, April 12, 2010
Monogrammed
Monogrammed socks:
Protection against the worryingly high rate of sock theft reported nationwide.
(Downside, you have to wear your pants awfully high if you want anyone to see your initials...)
Protection against the worryingly high rate of sock theft reported nationwide.
(Downside, you have to wear your pants awfully high if you want anyone to see your initials...)
Monday, March 29, 2010
This Little Piggy Went to Market, This Little Piggy Stayed Home. . .
I was browsing the latest Kint Picks catalog to come in the mail, a week or two ago.
(This is neither here nor there, but that catalog was a case of knitting, knitting everywhere, and not a hook in sight. I suppose I shouldn't have been surprised. After all, the name isn't Crochet Picks. But still! Oh, the trials and tribulations of a crocheter in this knit-centric world!)
So, as I was saying, I was browsing the catalog. Lots of socks in this one. Here a sock, there a sock, ev'rywhere a knit sock. Some of them were awfully pretty, I must admit. Especially those knee-high ones. Almost makes you want to learn to knit. (Almost.)
Socks are so useful-- so serviceable. Even the fancy knee-high type, and the ones with intricate colorwork or cabling. You can always justify it because socks are, well, socks. You need them. Everyone needs socks, except maybe for tropical beach-dwellers, and they don't count (particularly after this long winter, they definitely don't count).
You are confident in your ability to excuse that stash of sock yarn-- until you find these:
Toeless socks?
(On the covers of two books? Is there some sort of toeless sock fad going on? Kind of like all the teen girls running around town in pajama bottoms?)
I just don't get this. At all.
They're like fingerless gloves, only totally useless. I mean, of the whole foot, the toes need covering the most, don't they? Aren't they the parts most prone to getting cold? I suppose you could say the same of fingers in the case of fingerless gloves, but considering how much we use our fingers, at least fingerless gloves make some logical sense, but few of us need our toes to be uncovered so that we can use them to perform various and sundry tasks.
And so to reiterate, I just don't get it.
Am I missing something here?
(This is neither here nor there, but that catalog was a case of knitting, knitting everywhere, and not a hook in sight. I suppose I shouldn't have been surprised. After all, the name isn't Crochet Picks. But still! Oh, the trials and tribulations of a crocheter in this knit-centric world!)
So, as I was saying, I was browsing the catalog. Lots of socks in this one. Here a sock, there a sock, ev'rywhere a knit sock. Some of them were awfully pretty, I must admit. Especially those knee-high ones. Almost makes you want to learn to knit. (Almost.)
Socks are so useful-- so serviceable. Even the fancy knee-high type, and the ones with intricate colorwork or cabling. You can always justify it because socks are, well, socks. You need them. Everyone needs socks, except maybe for tropical beach-dwellers, and they don't count (particularly after this long winter, they definitely don't count).
You are confident in your ability to excuse that stash of sock yarn-- until you find these:
Toeless socks?
(On the covers of two books? Is there some sort of toeless sock fad going on? Kind of like all the teen girls running around town in pajama bottoms?)
I just don't get this. At all.
They're like fingerless gloves, only totally useless. I mean, of the whole foot, the toes need covering the most, don't they? Aren't they the parts most prone to getting cold? I suppose you could say the same of fingers in the case of fingerless gloves, but considering how much we use our fingers, at least fingerless gloves make some logical sense, but few of us need our toes to be uncovered so that we can use them to perform various and sundry tasks.
And so to reiterate, I just don't get it.
Am I missing something here?
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