The Crafty Bits: Angee Socks

According to the history on this post I saved this image in a draft entry on August 9th, 2009 at 8:26pm


...but truly I've had this yarn since November 2008 (I know, I know...that is a long time to sit on such a beautiful skein of yarn). I bought it at our annual Christmas shopping trip to Sioux Falls. It's a Malabrigo sock yarn called Botticelli Red. Sandro Botticelli was a Florentine painter during the early Renaissance period (when art was beginning to focus on realism and developing the technique of true perspective.) He is best known for his painting The Birth of Venus, though I've always preferred the work Venus and Mars. So it is oddly appropriate (though in this case completely accidental) that the pattern I used seems to employ a bit of forced perspective by taking heavy lines of knit stitches that "fade" in and out from each other, making the leg and foot look longer and narrower.

The pattern, from Cookie A's mega-popular book Sock Innovation, was quick and easy though I did them as a "knit night" only project so they took nearly two months to finish. In the end they finished up just in time to wear while I decorated for Christmas, and even if they aren't Christmas Red they're still beautiful and cozy.





Sock Information:

Yarn: Malabrigo Sock Yarn Botticelli Red
Needles: #2 DPNs
Pattern: Angee Socks
Source: Sock Innovation by Cookie A