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Yes, the pattern is supposed to look like snakeskin
I can't believe these socks are the first project I've finished since July. During the winter I was getting two to four projects done a month plus working on two larger projects. Now just the one (and a couple others in various half done states still on the needles).
Anyway, for these I used the 'Severus Loves Lily' yarn that I got in my HP Swap box from the Odd Ducks. I was going to use it to make a scarf to go with my winter coat (which is also bright green) but the two green were slightly different hues. Instead I pulled this sock pattern (which is called, appropriately enough 'Nagini') out of my queue.
I like them. Though I don't understand why most sock patterns want you to stop mid-calf. I don't like my socks that high, and I can't imagine that it is ever attractive. But that's fine, it just means that I have a good amount of the yarn left over to do something else with -- probably some faire isle mittens.
A Letter from New York Helene Hanff
If there is a Helene Hanff book you are likely to know, it is 84 Charing Cross Road or maybe the movie of the same name with Ann Bancroft and Anthony Hopkins. Because of the relative popularity of that book and connections made during the associated book tour, Helene Hanff was contracted to do once a month, five minute broadcasts for the BBC Radio "Woman's Hour". A Letter from New York is a collection of those talks.
I love the voyeuristic quality of reading creative non-fiction/slice-of-life stories. And this one is at the top of my list for a couple of reasons. It is often terribly funny -- one talk is about how to serve thanksgiving dinner in an apartment by juggling all the dishes between various people's ovens and refrigerators. I've long been an aspiring city girl (with New York as the ultimate prize) so the book holds a great deal of living vicariously even in the minutia. And then the essays span from January 1979 to April 1984 so there is the interest in everyday life in a past era -- even if it is not that far past. The archaeologist in me loves that.
So yeah, as much fiction as I read, my absolute favorite book is a work of non-fiction -- and an out of print one at that.
Anyway, for these I used the 'Severus Loves Lily' yarn that I got in my HP Swap box from the Odd Ducks. I was going to use it to make a scarf to go with my winter coat (which is also bright green) but the two green were slightly different hues. Instead I pulled this sock pattern (which is called, appropriately enough 'Nagini') out of my queue.
I like them. Though I don't understand why most sock patterns want you to stop mid-calf. I don't like my socks that high, and I can't imagine that it is ever attractive. But that's fine, it just means that I have a good amount of the yarn left over to do something else with -- probably some faire isle mittens.
A Letter from New York Helene Hanff
If there is a Helene Hanff book you are likely to know, it is 84 Charing Cross Road or maybe the movie of the same name with Ann Bancroft and Anthony Hopkins. Because of the relative popularity of that book and connections made during the associated book tour, Helene Hanff was contracted to do once a month, five minute broadcasts for the BBC Radio "Woman's Hour". A Letter from New York is a collection of those talks.
I love the voyeuristic quality of reading creative non-fiction/slice-of-life stories. And this one is at the top of my list for a couple of reasons. It is often terribly funny -- one talk is about how to serve thanksgiving dinner in an apartment by juggling all the dishes between various people's ovens and refrigerators. I've long been an aspiring city girl (with New York as the ultimate prize) so the book holds a great deal of living vicariously even in the minutia. And then the essays span from January 1979 to April 1984 so there is the interest in everyday life in a past era -- even if it is not that far past. The archaeologist in me loves that.
So yeah, as much fiction as I read, my absolute favorite book is a work of non-fiction -- and an out of print one at that.