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November 16, 2006
tiny baby feet
While Peter was visiting me last month, we spent many of our afternoons languishing in coffee shops; I lay back on the couch at Hot Corner day after day, listening to Peter read things to me from the newspaper and pausing occasionally in my knitting to hoist my gigantic clown mug of tea. That's the life for me, I'm telling you. I finished my Opal Tiger socks and used the leftovers to make a second pair for our friends Mats, which I can finally show you now that Mats' socks have been delivered to him. They're not really misshapen, my fingers just aren't a very good stand in for sturdy toddler feet.
Since then I have knitted nary a stitch (not counting a few stitches I can't tell you about until they hit your local magazine stand later in the year), being far too busy in the studio. But, as we all know, High Energy Jenny is in a family way, and I couldn't very well show up at her shower without some rocking baby socks, so I took some time from my backbreaking printmaking schedule to make these:
Socks that Rock, in the Fred Flintstone colourway.
Posted by jodi at November 16, 2006 09:38 PM | categories: sticks and string
Comments
AWWWWWWWWWWWWWW!
(Someone had to say it!)
Posted by: NWJR at November 17, 2006 07:52 AM
Afternoons spent lounging in coffee shops sounds fantastic to me. Knitting and coffee go perfectly well together.
The socks! The cute!
Posted by: caro at November 17, 2006 09:13 AM
Cute cute Cute!
Now, as to the Neil Young, stolen picnic lunch, ear-poking dream you posted on my blog, well, I hope you sleep better tonight :-)
Posted by: courtney at November 17, 2006 09:57 AM
Those are going to make for one wonderful first toe-warming experience :-)
Posted by: bonnie at November 17, 2006 02:33 PM
And I love them SO MUCH! So cute. They already have a place of honor in the wee one's new sock drawer.
Posted by: Jenny at November 17, 2006 05:54 PM
Thanks so much for the lovely socks Jodi!!
I've got a pic to prove that they fit him perfectly (too bad I wasn't able to capture a little bit more enthusiasm from Shortbread). Hopefully he will still be able to fit them when you return to Windsoria so I get a photo of the Opal Sock Posse (population 2).
Posted by: Mita at November 17, 2006 10:07 PM
Wee bairn socks! :)
Posted by: Bakerina at November 17, 2006 11:14 PM
The coffee-shop lounging sounds like my previous life, but there's actually no reason I can't do that from time to time now. Thanks for the reminder.
And three pairs of socks -- wheee!
Posted by: alison at November 18, 2006 06:05 PM
just wanted to say nice socks!!!!!
Hope you and peter are doing well, the site looks great.
E
Posted by: EZE at November 19, 2006 03:09 PM
All the socks are great - Jenny is going to have a well-outfitted baby ;)
Posted by: Lolly at November 20, 2006 07:50 AM
Love the opal tiger socks. They still make that colorway, right?
I must make some.
Posted by: Melissa at November 20, 2006 05:47 PM
I wandered over her via HEJ's place - could you divulge the pattern for the baby socks?? - I was planning on making baby socks for a friend who's due in January and was going to do the "baby" thing but I have some STR and I think yours are just too cool - how neat for a baby to start out with a gorgeous pair of handknits from STR.
Posted by: robin at November 27, 2006 11:11 AM