Somehow, after the socks are knit I just wear them and don't think so much about the work I put into them. The making is a journey and then I go on another journey with something else, and it's a shame because some of the yarns I use are really exceptional. And hardwearing! which is lucky because in the case of this particular yarn, there ain't no more to be had but what's stashed.
I love the browns and golds in this colourway and the hits of denim blue that brighten the whole, don't you?
In fact I decorated our house in these colours, now that I think of it, with the addition of red and off-white. I might possibly have been thinking of these socks, which are my favourites, when I came up with the idea to go heavy on the brown and blue.
Of course when socks are new around here, tradition dictates that they have get photographed on the porch. Without said porch I kinda gave up on photographing them at all because the light at the condo was just not that appealing.
I've been eyeing the porch, which is currently piled with the railings we didn't get installed when the weather was good and which we've all now agreed is too fake-looking and unsteady to get installed at all (ouch, since those materials are not returnable.) It's not entirely the same as it was; instead of a glossy paint on wider planks, it's now a flat stain on narrow planks. No more fitting the whole width of my foot on one plank with no breaks, I guess. But the new floor still looks okay and the wood won't peel or curl any more which is a plus.
That's one of the chairs from the vintage seating set I bought in the fall. The plan was to use them in the back yard on our soon-to-be deck, which will be best described as 'petite' (and will, with luck, get wide planks.) But now that they're sitting on the porch for the winter I'm feeling like maybe they belong there permanently. Certainly the colour looks pretty natural with the floor. Of course: cushions. The ones the set came with are brown and don't go with anything, and they are also not at all cushiony, so I get to choose between adding some squish and recovering, or just giving up and starting over. But what colour should I choose?
(that's kind of a rhetorical question but if you have an idea of what would look great on a black and white house with a grey porch and rust coloured brick I would be very glad to hear about it. otherwise I will feel it's necessary to put them in the back where the brown cushions will blend with the plentiful supply of brown tree bark.)
I love this set... and I especially love that it doesn't weigh as much as the wooden chairs we used to haul up onto the porch every winter.
But I will love it even more when the porch is completely finished and the cushions are on and I can just sit down at will and photograph socks. I miss that so much. I even miss embarrassing myself taking pictures of my feet on the porch steps on a Sunday, as the neighbours stroll by!
(maybe it's a good thing I haven't finished many socks lately, so I am not losing opportunities to do that when the porch is finally done?)
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