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Jun. 2nd, 2009 09:15 amToday is apparently a day where, once again, I am all excited about making socks. (My enthusiasm for my crochet projects tends to come in spurts. So, for a few months, I will be really excited about one kind of project and the rest of them will be put on hold till I cycle back through. Which is why I am still working on the same pair of socks I took to Norwescon to work on.) Mom let me raid her old sock yarn stash this morning, so I have new shiny things to potentially work with. After I finish the pair I'm working on.
I am sort of tempted to go and find bright crayola-crayon yellow and orange yarn to make socks with. My natural inclinations, color-wise, are towards greens and blues and greys, so I end up with a lot of yarn in those shades and after a while, my brain rebels and I am forced to find really bright colors. Because, y'know, I have lots of blue socks. Surely I need some yellow ones, right? Which is how the Flash socks happened.
(Other people nickname their projects, right? Each pair of socks I've done has a name attached. Some of them are very basic - "Green stripes", for example - but some of them are kind of silly. Like the Flash socks. Which are bright red with yellow toes and heels and I made them while I was reading a lot of Wally West comics. Or the Wham! socks, which were made of yarn that would have been self-striping were I knitting but I crochet so it came in clumps of bright primary colors on a black background and look like 80's computer graphics. Katie decided they looked like something from a Wham! video. The current socks are Pebbles because they have a pebbley texture. Occasionally, I want to do more silly fannish-inspired socks but I haven't yet.)
It is terribly difficult to find affordable bright orange sock yarn, I have found.
I am sort of tempted to go and find bright crayola-crayon yellow and orange yarn to make socks with. My natural inclinations, color-wise, are towards greens and blues and greys, so I end up with a lot of yarn in those shades and after a while, my brain rebels and I am forced to find really bright colors. Because, y'know, I have lots of blue socks. Surely I need some yellow ones, right? Which is how the Flash socks happened.
(Other people nickname their projects, right? Each pair of socks I've done has a name attached. Some of them are very basic - "Green stripes", for example - but some of them are kind of silly. Like the Flash socks. Which are bright red with yellow toes and heels and I made them while I was reading a lot of Wally West comics. Or the Wham! socks, which were made of yarn that would have been self-striping were I knitting but I crochet so it came in clumps of bright primary colors on a black background and look like 80's computer graphics. Katie decided they looked like something from a Wham! video. The current socks are Pebbles because they have a pebbley texture. Occasionally, I want to do more silly fannish-inspired socks but I haven't yet.)
It is terribly difficult to find affordable bright orange sock yarn, I have found.
