LOTR

You know, I thought that when the girls were both in school -- even better, both at the same school -- that I would have more time.  Wrong!  It's a little-known fact that school- and extra-curricular activities actually expand to fill parental time.

So there hasn't been much knitting....

I did manage a pair of socks this month.  I found the yarn rather unexpectedly at one of my local craft stores -- they usually have mostly acrylics and novelty yarns, although a bit more "upscale" than Michaels' selections -- but at the moment, they actually have a basket of sock yarn! so I snapped up a ball with my 40% off coupon -- Meilenweit Stile in color 8005, a blend of blacks, creams, lavendar-greys, and sages.

It was not, I admit, particularly pleasant to knit, feeling rather stiff and artificial in my hands, but it has softened up a bit with washing, and I'm counting on it being as filzfrei and extra-strapazierfähig as promised on the label ("non-felting and hard-wearing").  It bled a bit in the sink the first time -- a midrange blue, curiously, so apparently the black isn't really -- which toned down the cream somewhat.  I'd thought the cream was a bit loud, as it happens (!), so for myself I wasn't terribly annoyed, but it's something to take into account next time.

 

These are plain stockinette with an eye-of-partridge heel and the squared-off grafted toe from the Jaywalker pattern.

I will probably forever after remember these as my "LOTR" socks, as I watched the entire cycle of Peter Jackson's "Lord of the Rings" movies and a fair bit of the extras as I knitted!

Now I'm picking up that Ravenclaw "Prisoner of Azkaban" scarf that I started in summer.  (Wool scarves in summer! what was I thinking?)

Comments

[Rose Red]

They are a bit hobbit-ish in colour - if hobbits wore sockses of course!

Excellent close-up photo - really shows the colours and detail well.

[--Deb]

The socks look great! Love the colors.

[JulieT]

Haha, I have a jacket I knit while watching LotR and all the extras and commentaries. (It's the Starry Night Ruana Thingie, if you're on Ravelry.) The only thing I could see wrong with the whole deal was, I'd sit down, turn on the movie, start knitting, and surface from Middle Earth three hours later, lusting over Viggo Mortensen in leather pants, and wondering why I couldn't feel my fingers any more.

Nice socks. They kinda look like Minas Tirith. All that marble and shadow.

[Rachel]

I agree, very hobbitish! (And I, too, LOVE LOTR!)

[Lazuli]

Those are very Lothlorien socks - at least to me. I do see the Minas Tirith connection as well, though.