{"id":862,"date":"2012-12-14T02:53:00","date_gmt":"2012-12-14T02:53:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/eaumaison.wordpress.com\/2012\/12\/14\/socks-socks-socks"},"modified":"2012-12-14T02:53:00","modified_gmt":"2012-12-14T02:53:00","slug":"socks-socks-socks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eaumaison.us\/index.php\/2012\/12\/14\/socks-socks-socks\/","title":{"rendered":"Socks socks socks"},"content":{"rendered":"

Ben asked what the “part II” was for in my last post.\u00a0 I told him I had done a “Treat yo self” post before.\u00a0 He did a search and the results were sad.\u00a0 One post about buying yarn with Miranda<\/a> in July.\u00a0 The other was my salon visit<\/a> in February.\u00a0 Almost one year ago.\u00a0 That erases my guilt.<\/p>\n

Speaking of buying yarn, I’m going crazy knitting this year!\u00a0 I have six projects on needles right now.\u00a0 I won’t post my Ravelry page, because there are Christmas surprises there.\u00a0 But I need to tell you about my sock craze.<\/p>\n

It started with my Steffi.\u00a0 Steffi is my pen-pal in Germany.\u00a0 We have been writing since I was in the third grade, about 1991.\u00a0 Thanks to email we have been able to keep in touch over the years with minimal effort.\u00a0 Isn’t it incredible that my pen pal and I still write??\u00a0 Anyway, she had her first baby this year; a beautiful girl named Sophie.\u00a0 I sent her an Aden & Anais blanket and a bonnet made out of my new favorite yarn, Anzula Squishy.\u00a0 It’s a gorgeous blend of cashmere and merino wool with a touch of nylon – and it’s machine washable!\u00a0 Steffi loved it and sent a photo of it in action<\/a>.\u00a0 Oh how it tickles me to see this!\u00a0 (Then I got a photo from my friend Miranda <\/a>of Cedar wearing the other bonnet I made.\u00a0 So many babies! So much cuteness!) In thanks she sent me a package with undies for Jack (perfect timing!) and hand knit socks made by her mother.<\/p>\n

\"German<\/a><\/p>\n

You guys.\u00a0 Socks. Hand-knit.\u00a0 By my German pen-pal’s mother.\u00a0 Does it get any more precious than that?<\/p>\n

I always thought I would hate wearing\/knitting socks.\u00a0 Too hot, itchy, and bulky.\u00a0 My lands, was I ever wrong.\u00a0 It’s like walking around with your feet gently swaddled in downy quilts.\u00a0 Not too hot, not at all itchy, and so comforting.\u00a0 Thus I decided I HAD to knit socks.<\/p>\n

I spent a ton of time on Ravelry searching for a good pattern.\u00a0 Then I had to stop and start the toe three times and the heel twice, because I wasn’t satisfied with how it was going.\u00a0 After all that experimentation the second sock is going super fast!\u00a0 I even started to make Christmas stockings with a similar pattern.\u00a0<\/p>\n

<\/a>\"Sock<\/a><\/div>\n

\u00a0Can’t wait to wear them!\u00a0<\/p>\n

Speaking of socks, it’s another night of Hanukkah, and it’s almost bed time for Jack.\u00a0 We better open our socks now.\u00a0 Good night!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Ben asked what the “part II” was for in my last post.\u00a0 I told him I had done a “Treat yo self” post before.\u00a0 He did a search and the results were sad.\u00a0 One post about buying yarn with Miranda in July.\u00a0 The other was my salon visit in February.\u00a0 Almost one year ago.\u00a0 That […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-862","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","post-preview"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eaumaison.us\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/862","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/eaumaison.us\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/eaumaison.us\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eaumaison.us\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eaumaison.us\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=862"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/eaumaison.us\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/862\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eaumaison.us\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=862"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eaumaison.us\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=862"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eaumaison.us\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=862"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}