Since our spring and summer seasons are so short in Calgary, I get overly excited about gardening in the few months that I actually have to garden. We just bought our house a year and a half ago and this is my second season with my garden...I need to warn you that I love gardening as much as knitting and there will be many gratuitous posts with garden pictures etc. over the new few months.
To kick-start my 'gardening' season, I completed these socks from
Vintage Socks by Nancy Bush. They are the gentleman's sock with lozenge pattern with some unintended modifications (Oops! I completely missed the pattern for the rib part and did my own typical twisted rib top). I am not too keen on the seams on the back of the socks, which seem to prevail in all the patterns in that book. The yarn is Koigu from the painters palette...not certain which colorway...all I can say is it is not my favorite colorway, however the yarn knitted up nicely. The socks look ready for gardening season tucked into my gardening clogs. The Babe says that I will scare all the birds off with my color combination...I think that I will just camouflage nicely amongst all the pink flowers that will come up...eventually.
The bloom pictured above is the first in my garden - bleeding hearts.
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Gorgeous sock/clog combination, quite the most stylish gardening combination I have seen.
You definitely are an optimistic knitter - gardener, this post cheers up!
I agree...you're stylin in that footwear!....that pattern is on my list of socks to knit...not right now though...it's 100 today!
LOVE the bleeding hearts!
Now see, I was just thinking how incredibly lovely those colours are! and what's more, they look fabulous with your garden clogs.
Bring on the gardening photos!
here, here! bring on the gardening photos!
the socks are cute, the clogs...LOVE 'EM!
i'm not sure how i'd feel about the seam in the back either. seems kinda weird to me...
:)
Your socks look lovely. I would like to be a gardener and have all these ideas, but never get round to it!
The socks/clogs combo is fab!
Ah beautiful bleeding hearts - one of my favourite plants - mine are threatening to take over the bed this year so will have to try and divide them after flowering is over.
Very lovely socks indeed! I've always loved that pattern.
And I also spent the weekend in the garden. It feels sooo good to smell that yummy dirt smell.
i love those clogs!!!!
I say bring on the gardening photos! Of course, I'm biased since I'll be doing the same very soon...I'm back home and have my hands in the dirt again!
I think those yarn colors are great and the socks turned out amazing. Great pattern!
What beautiful socks, lovely colours too. Funnily enough I have been 'gardening' with my secateurs all afternoon!
oh, i love bleeding hearts! i'm glad it's finally starting to get warm enough for you to garden. no more snow, right???
Love the sock!
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