The Crafty Bits: Oblique Ribbed Socks (F)

This is a story about a pair of socks. It's also a story with out an end.

Not literally without an end, but more like with out the instant gratification of getting to see the finished product.

There are lot of things I've inherited from my mother. Eye color, the need for lists and the complete inability to get birthday gifts delivered in a timely manner. It's that last one that caused this whole debacle. See in late May it was Mariah's Birthday (30th...but you didn't hear that from me...) and a proper celebration of the day required a pretty spectacular gift. Enter a skein of beautiful yarn from a local yarnista called Castle Fibers. This yarn...beautiful...oh, the colors are breathtaking and it's tight hand spun twist is perfect for socks. Oh, so perfect.



Of course, sock yarn like this needs just the right pattern to display the colors to their best which is how I ended up with a sock pattern that was, perhaps, a wee bit aggressive for the time line I had for production. Ok, maybe not so "perhaps"...more like definitely. Which is why there aren't any pictures of the finished socks.

Oh, you didn't make the leap of thought with me? Ok, so her birthday was in May but she didn't get the socks until mid-June. Also, I finished the socks in the car...on the way to seeing Mariah...in June. So yeah, the socks weren't done until just before I gave them to her. Like right before I gave them to her.

Which is all to say, that is why there are no pictures of the completed Oblique Ribbed socks.