January Socks

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 The first months combo of my self-imposed sock club. 

Yarn: Handkraft "The sock who loved me" in Mangrove (70% Merino, 30% silk. Yummy.)  Pattern: Sleepy Hollow.

Verdict:  I love these socks.  Love them. 

I love the stripes up the backs of the legs (probably a throwback to some bizarre stocking seam association I’m making) and I love – no, not love… I am deeply satisfied by the heel.

This sock is knit from the top down, and when you get to the time for the heel, you begin to work it in the traditional slipped stitch pattern, but you don’t work it by itself, back and forth. 

Instead you keep working in lovely fulfilling rounds, increasing for the gussets as you go.  When the whole business is the right length and size, you work a short row turn, then work back and forth, uniting and consuming the gusset stitches into the heel and sole.  After a little, when you have the right number of stitches, you increase as you consume… so that stitch count stays constant. 

The result is a nice fitting heel, but as is so often the point in knitting… that’s not it’s charm.

The charm is, somehow – that the resulting heel is charmingly foot shaped, and almost seems fitted.  Narrow where heels are, wider where the foot is. I’m thrillingly enchanted.  It’s like matching increases or a perfect bobble, or bang on symmetry in a paired decrease.  The attention to detail is just.  Well.  It’s sexy. 

And no.  I don’t mind that I’ve said that about a sock.  I bet you think it’s hot too.

233 thoughts on “January Socks”

  1. Makes me want to knit them too. (Too bad I have so many other socks to knit before that though!)

  2. Makes me want to knit them too. (Too bad I have so many other socks to knit before that though!)

  5. I’m almost tempted to become a sock knitter! Congratulations on yet another beautiful knitted object. Thanks for sharing the details of your delight, that only other knitters can fully appreciate.

  6. Oohhhh….Now I want the pattern, if only for how that heel looks. I just love how it looks when you have it laid out just so.

  9. Those are awesome. They just jumped the queue of everything else I was about to make. Seriously dude. And that heel – totally sexy!

  11. I might need a towel to wipe up the drool. (Hope this pair’s for you, and not headed out the door!)

  14. I am not quite sure how i came across your blog.. but it is delightful and when I want to be cheered up I have a wee read of it and smile away to myself here in Glasgow scotland UK
    I returned to knitting when my youngest granddaughter was born in May last year, she had cold feet… so yes I have been knitting her socks ever since. AND socks for me… as I mostly think my daughters will not want to wear them.
    The socks you display today are indeed delightful…. knit on and thanks for sharing in the lovely chatty way you do x Ann

  16. Since “Yarn: Handkraft “The sock who loved me” in Mangrove (70% Merino, 30% silk)” is out of stock, can you please give more details on the kind of yarn (weight – etc.)it is so that I can look for a substitute?

  18. My husband learned early in our marriage that baking bread from scratch is dead sexy. Now he has learned that if he wears a pair of sock I handknit for him, it has an almost similar effect, and may gain him “favors” later… probably TMI, but hey, it is what it is 😉

  21. The socks are beautiful. Socks are the “thing” that might make a knitter out of me. The thought of knitting socks appeals to me — but not enough to take it up right now.

  26. I want to know how you posed for picture 4??? Are you double jointed?? 🙂 And yes those socks are the bomb!!!!

  27. Wow. Were I not a devoted toe-upper, I would have to figure out this heel generically, so I could use it in any old sock pattern. (Because this method will only work top-down, and that is part of the wonderfulness.) In fact, this heel is so fabulously sculptured and gorgeous, I may have to do that anyway. And then I will have to knit a pair of top-down socks. Oh My God.

  28. Gorgeous! Makes me think about another attempt at making socks, even though I know it will end in disappointment.

  29. marvelous socks and I can totally see the deep appreciation they could engender. what a lovely pairing of pattern and yarn!

  30. It is, indeed, a sexy sock.
    Who did you get to take your pictures? (That’s my biggest problem with taking pictures of my own knitting – only the child and the dog to snap the pic, and neither of them are very good photographers.)

  31. I would not call it “self-imposed” as that could be demotivating in the long run. Or the short run. Call it “Stephanie’s Super Exclusive Sock of the Month Club” or something fab like that. 🙂

  35. Way cool. I have a thing for wool/silk blends. I have a thing for clever heels. I think I have a thing for your socks!

  36. Gorgeous socks. I love the little indents in the bottom up shot. I wonder if I have enough sock yarn to kit up a sock a month (for the month’s that are left in 2010).
    If not, then I should get cracking on the sock yarn buying before it is all gone!

  38. I love the really subtle variegation in that colorway. You can tell it’s there, and it adds a little oomph to the sock, but I like how it doesn’t detract from the stitch pattern. Beautiful.

  40. Heels are supposed to be more narrow than feet? (Peers down at feet with a pensive expression.) Oh yeah, I forgot that most people don’t have feet shaped like the Flintstones’. Ah well!

  41. I needed something to take the edge off the day, this post has got to be it (and I don’t have a sock OTN currently).
    Is the photo ‘shopped’ or is there another model? (It reminds of the black humour that surrounded SIL becoming a below knee amputee, and the party tricks she could participate in! – but I guess you had to be there).
    Very clever heel that might join my queue, very lovely gradations of colour. The muggles will never know or understand.

  44. Sock porn.
    Everything about that sock is beautiful. (Would a non-knitter understand even the tiniest bit about that statement?) Question: could an “advanced beginner” – “early intermediate” manage both the pattern and the heel variation of it? How about one with little self-confidence???

  46. I’m just finishing up a pair of socks from a sock club (mine’s not self-imposed, though) with that exact type of heel and I love it, as well. Won’t be the last time I knit that type of heel, either!
    Your socks are lovely and I’ll bet they are warm.

  49. Love that heel. The lace pattern is a nice one, but the heel puts those socks over the top for me. I have a few leafy green sock yarns that might work particularly well with Sleepy Hollow.
    Finishing my current project just got that much harder 😉

  51. First let me start by asking. Is that sunshine I see comming in the window? WOW! The socks look yummy and yes it is ok to say sexy about socks. We do have a thing for them. I might say some yarn and a pattern would make for a great Valentiine’s day. Be still my heart.

  52. I agree, definitely “sock porn”! What a feast for the eyes…and yes, dead sexy!!

  53. Beautiful socks and great pictures! I think they would Jared Flood a run for his money 🙂 (And yay for the sun shining – finally!)

  54. I love your personel sock club idea and will deffinately try that myself. I have so much sock yarn and never know what to knit, but if you take the pondering equation out and have everything all ready set up you just knit it. I love the sound of the construction of the sock and just had to get my self. The socks came out lovely.

  58. Truly a delightful sock! Now that I’m considering moving out of my sock-comfort-zone (ie plain stockinette leg & foot) I need to try this pattern.

  59. If I didn’t have an Olympics project looming in my very near future, I would be purchasing this pattern right now and casting on. I love the yarn you chose to go with this pattern, great choice!
    Ironically, my Olympics project also contains foliage. (Anne Hanson’s Totally Autumn from Knitty Fall ’07, for the record.)

  60. 🙂 even better than the heel turn is the foot turn. Would love to see that uncropped photo!

  61. LOVE it, I agree, it is HOT. I think this will be the next sock I knit. Am working on Cookie A’s “Kai Mai” right now, a very cool sock…..

  63. Those heels are so curvaceous and sexy I’m dubbing them “Marilyn”. Lovely rest of the sock BTW. I’m thinking it’s going into my queue right away.

  64. I LOVE your perfect 1st position in the photo showing the heal-back. Wish I could still do that!

  65. Aargh! Don’t show me preetty projects – I’m trying to get my WIP finished so that I can train for the Knitting Olympics, and I tell you, my planned entry is not Sleepy Hollow socks! No, I’ve bought yummy fluffsome alpaga (I love that word, it’s French for alpaca) yarn, and I will use it on my planned project! I will! I will!
    (So many exclamation marks. A sign that knitting a blanket entirely in feather and fan might not have been good for my brain?)

  66. That is the Vin Diesel of heels. And that’s as sexy as I can possibly put it. (And yes, I am embarassed to admit it. He’s my guilty pleasure.)

  68. OMG Georgia is right, it *is* sock porn. I am off to get the pattern and I am alarmed at how easily I am seduced by your knitting! 🙂 But that is a sexy heel.
    My version of your sock club shall also have baggies with a sock pattern I want to knit just waiting for the perfect yarn.

  69. Brilliantly sexy!! I must admit, just the way you talked about it yesterday made me scour around and put that pattern in my little Ravelry market basket. Great socks!

  70. So first you gift me with the magic of “make your heel flap a square and go longer if you have a high instep” and now you find a pattern to FIT the heel, not just be long enough so the sock pulls on over your heel? I will talk myself into paying $6 for a single pattern. I will.

  73. I love those colours. And in merino/silk? You make me wish I knitted socks. (I know, I know; it’s somewhat heretical that I don’t. But I have discovered that I am, very firmly, a Spinner who sometimes Knits, not the other way around.) I like how the leaves of the pattern together with the variegation create gentle movement on the sock.
    The fourth photo that’s mystifying people brings fifth position from ballet to mind. It can be done; I just wouldn’t be able to take a photo of my feet while doing it…

  76. How did you get your feet to do that(fourth photo down), with toe and heel together? Freaky. Great socks.

  77. I never knew that the bottom of a sock could be so lovely! <3
    Congrats on (for all intents and purposes) keeping up with your sock club!

  78. Your socks are lovely it makes me want to nit them to!! I wish i had the pattern!! What a sexy looking heel!

  81. I love those socks. Even not on my color wheel, I want those socks! Oooo…the heel, the gusset…do they fit as well as they look? Better? I need the pattern to make my own! (And I only saw a picture.)

  85. Sooo Sexyyyyy! I need a cold shower.
    The socks are beautiful. Will have to knit this one soon, or at least hoard the pattern

  86. Those socks are beautiful. And that heel DOES sound sexy. I may just need to make a pair of those.

  87. Not being a very experienced sock knitter, and like ‘gretcheng,’ really liking toe-up……
    why couldn’t this heel and/or whole sock be knitted toe up?? If it’s knit in the round, I think that would make the conversion easier.

  90. I want them. The heel sounds interesting. The pattern/colors (colours) are a visual delight. I’m impressed when someone sticks to a self-directed notion to knit to a **plan**.

  91. These socks are stunning! I have GOT to become a better sock knitter. Thanks Stephanie for the inspiration. You are a treasure.

  92. Totally hot!
    That sole shot — whew! (fans self)
    Nice fifth position, too, BTW!
    (Now you have me intrigued, and I so didn’t need another sock pattern to knit….)

  93. Absolutely fabulous! You make me want to knit fancy socks even though plain vanilla in fun yarn is usually good enough for me. And yes, they’re are sexy — they’ve got that “come hither” look!

  94. Oh you Yarn Harlot, or should it be Pattern Harlot? I caved, I bought the pattern! Now I have to figure out WHEN I can knit it, but now I can! Thanks for sharing the gorgeousness!!

  95. This pattern went straight to my queue when I saw you post it last week. I’m so glad that you elaborated about the heel construction… I LOVE unique construction details that end up looking somewhat conventional. Keeps things interesting. Thanks for sharing!

  96. I’m all twitterpated. I swear I can hear my dpns calling to me. I’m looking daggers at the shawl I feel so committed to right now. I want to commit project adultery with those socks! Of course, I’m already a serial adulterer. My Great Expectations sweater is languishing in it’s project bag, quietly reminding me that spring is coming with glorious days of sweater weather.
    Maybe I have time to squeeze in some socks before I go back to my sweater… I need warm feet too, right?

  97. MUST CONQUER SOCK KNITTING! Too many gorgeous patterns and yarn out there. Thank you…travel safely.

  104. I just had a flashback–my mom wore stockings with a seam up the back, and one of those garter belt thingies. I’m glad those garments are a thing of the past. My apologies to anyone who may still choose to wear such a contraption. Anyway, the socks are beautiful, and I’d really like to try that heel method.

  105. isn’t sock knitting fun!
    anyone else out there making a pair of Valentines Day socks for their sweetheart?

  106. Indeed they are beautiful & sexy.
    I love the leaf shapes, & the heel & gusset.
    Thanks, again for sharing them 😀
    I look forward to February’s sock.
    — Aussie Jay xx

  109. Trying to understand the mechanics of the heel. Does any of this mean that there are no stitches to pick up after the heel flap is knit?

  114. Those are beautiful socks! I want to learn how to do that sooo bad but I just spent the last two hours wrestling with dpns trying to make a hat. Three tries and I changed to circulars. Don’t know what I’ll do when it’s time to decrease — hope it’s not another unfinished project! Dpn’s have a mind of their own. I don’t get it!

  119. What I want to know is how many other knitters have purchased the Sleepy Hollow sock pattern in the last, say, 24 hours, and how big a spike that is…

  120. Okay, I’ll ask… can you really still have your feet rotate 180 from each other or are there two models in the fourth picture?

  124. Beautiful socks! But am I the only one who is super-impressed with that perfect 5th-position stance in photo #4? Ballet training somewhere, me thinks.

  126. I have to agree with whoever said the Johnny Depp of heels… sigh. Sexy… I have a sock on the needles and this may be the heel. The one… I’m so in love.

  127. I get it. So awesome. I promised myself to knit some vanilla socks next but I might break my promise for that heel. I’m so untrustworthy when faced with temptation.

  128. Such a great idea to give yourself a sock club. Love the “kits” you made with the bags, patterns, and yarn! Might have to steal that idea… 🙂

  130. Wow. I have an atrocious, itchy, (probably highly contagious) case of sock envy now. That’s a pattern worth its price… it’s all in the construction, baby! I’ve turned socks over in my hands, wondering if that sort of construction was possible, and MUST see it in action as it comes off my needles.

  132. Your footing doesn’t just bring to mind ballet, that’s a spot on PERFECTION of a fifth position. I’m impressed. Almost as impressed (and confused, really) as I was by the heel. I’ve done about 8 pairs of socks now and have still only done 1) toe up and 2) short row heels. Granted, it took me that long to make those darn short rows come out pretty. I do so intend to expand my horizons.

  134. Rawr! Those are some sex-ay socks! Glad the camera cable showed up so we could see them in all of their glory!

  135. Those are some awesome socks!! Totally love the heel. They’re like chocolate and wine with your feet up so you can show them off socks!

  137. Wasn’t going to get the pattern, wasn’t going to get the pattern…had to get the pattern.
    You know, you ought to post ALL the socks you’re doing this year – it could be sort of a Yarn Harlot Virtual sock club.
    I’m doing something similar – too many relatives like handknit socks. Fortunately or unfortunately, most of them want “plain vanilla” ones.

  140. Why wear shoes? Oh, because it’s winter and you live in a cold climate. Amazing, fantastical socks, wish I could make may fingers do that!

  141. Truly the Gerard Butler of socks Steph…
    On a scale of 1-10, (your old vanilla sock being, say a 4) how complicated would you say the pattern is?

  146. How cool are those socks!?!? The end product sure makes all the oopses and woes worth it. You and your sexy socks are truly inspirational…I’ve set about organizing my stash and projects (no socks this time around, though. Well, maybe just one pair….) similarly to your sock club. My DH is about to pass out!!

  147. Socks can be VERY sexy! That yarn is absolutely gorgeous, and I want some of it for my own stash. Lovely pattern, I’d say a perfect match between the two.

  148. um, Gretcheng, and Stephanie – well, but, that’s how I do my heel/gusset increases when I do toe-up socks, well, sorta! I mean, I do the gusset increases as I go round and round, then do the short-row, back and forth, gobbling up gusset stitches until I’m back to total 72 – I think. Except tonight when I also had to take back 12 rows (that is — rip! while the KnitGang watched in horrified fascination.) Hey, I just said if Stephanie can do it – under her own duress – I can too. Yarn Harlot, my mentor! (ok, that does sound stalker-ish, sorry)

  150. oooooooo you are terrible…..I`ve asked for the pattern and suitable wool for my birthday.

  151. Wowza! Love the heel very much. Is this possibly a new technique that can be adapted to other socks? Do we have a miraculous innovation?

  154. I love the socks. I also love the sock kit idea. I have soooo much sock wool (’cause it doesn’t count as stash increase) that making kits is a wonderful idea. If only the other girls in my knitting circle were into making socks… it would be fun to have a REAL live sock club.

  155. Hey you found your camera cable! Hurray!! Mine tends to go off on jaunts all by itself too so I completely understand. Great socks! I have to tell you that that sock yarn (awesome dye job!) and that pattern are just perfect together. I love the way the subtle color changes almost make the leaves look like they are moving. Really lovely!!! Also, I think that your self imposed sock club is a really brilliant idea! I think I’m going to try it right after the Ravelympics!

  157. Stunning socks and yes the Johnny Depp of socks! The leaf pattern is lovely enough on its own to be tempting, but you’re right the heel/gusset construction is just fantastic. Thank you for all the photo shots and many angles. How’s the bohus coming? I’m having gratuitous shots withdrawal… And I’m unusually adrift in what project to knit for the Olympics. I should probably just finish some projects, but that’s not very exciting. I’m looking at shawl patterns, but maybe a pair of socks…

  159. Great socks, the details are beautiful off to make my second purchase from Oceanwinds in as many days. Thanks for sharing

  160. Lovely, lovely. I will be getting this pattern just for that heel method. The leaves will be a charming bonus.

  162. Oooh. I love them too – I’m right there with you when it comes to attention to detail. I even love how the design in the back of the leg disappears perfectly into the ridges of the heel. Just love that. Clearly, you have started a new craze.

  164. I’m not even a sock knitter (yet, I’m sure it’ll get me at some point) and those do seem like awesome heels. Thanks for sharing them with us!
    I’m still debating whether or not to make the Pretty Thing in camel or cashmere…

  165. I loathe and despise picking up the heel stitches, so a top down pattern that circumvents that step is well worth the price to me!

  166. It’s a thing of beauty! And the way you talk about it, it sounds so *easy* I’m almost ready to try knitting a sock! Almost……
    ♥

  167. So I loved the sock as you were showing it.
    Then I got to the heel detail picture and…
    Yeah… serious sock lust. Seriously. Lust. For a sock.

  168. I totally get your facination with the perfect construction and attention to detail. I feel the same way about Jared Flood’s Druid Mittens – the intricate pattern, the cool “saddle” closing – even the thumb has a perfect coordinating pattern on both sides – I can’t stop making them! I have a million sock patterns/projects – but that heel thing may force me to try this one as well!! You’ve hooked me again drat you!

  170. I typically knit toe-up socks, but these are so gorgeous (and, yes, sexy) that I had to have the pattern. And to think I wasn’t going to spend any money on knitting related things this month . . . so much for that idea.

  171. Best.Heel.Ever.
    And this from a toe-up, afterthought heel sock knitter. OMG, looks like I’ll have to break out of my box and knit a differnt kind of sock.

  173. I would be interested to know how many patterns are sold after all of us lusting after the sock. I bought mine!

  174. You’re right. That IS a sexy heel. (And only knitters would not be talking about some kind of ankle-breaking stiletto heeled shoe when they say that!)

  175. Must resist temptation to play hookey, go stash diving, order this pattern, and cast on.
    Must do the work that enables knitting & associated purchases. And already have 2 pairs of socks on the needles. Time to queue this up in my “must do’s.”

  176. That pattern is GORGEOUS. It makes me want to cast it on RIGHT NOW. I have some Wollmeise that would totally be worthy of a pattern like that…

  177. That is an awesome heel – I know, that has been said already, but it’s true.
    And the yarn is a wonderful color for socks, too. Perfect pair.
    Will you top that with the February selection? Waiting to see…..

  178. Do you think that is a faster heel and gusset or do you think it all comes out in the wash? It really is a neat little heel.

  184. Wow….freekin’ awesome socks! Looks like they were worth the aggravation…really beautiful pattern.

  187. Me: oooooh, aaaaahhhhh. Husband: what? Me: Oh yes, very nice, I love the way you do that. Husbnd: What are you doing? Me: that is so hot, I gotta get it now. Husband: (Hopeful) What?
    Me: This sock and pattern. Husband: (not so hopeful) “oh”

  188. hmmm — turning a heel while being able to continue round and round? That might solve my gets-stuck-in-the-middle-sock-itis I seem to suffer from. I’m off to take a good look at the pattern!

  190. Love the colorway, so subtle and beautiful. The pattern is way intrigueing. Why didn’t we do gussets this way before?

  192. Those socks look great! The pattern and the description seem a little intimidating although inviting (naughty and tempting). Thanks for sharing!

  196. The heel is mesmerizing… I keep staring at it. I’ve come back to your site today twice just to look at it. Gorgeous!

  198. Lovely sock, and a very cool heel technique–It took me a few seconds to figure out how you did that front/back pose. It’s a great shot. I think if I tried to do that I might get stuck that way!

  199. Love the sock pattern. I’m trying to learn to knit socks. I love hand knitted socks and thought I would give a try, any suggests for a beginner.

  200. I’m not a sock knitter — but even I will admit that is one seriously good-looking sock. And the colors are quite lovely as well.

  201. I just wanted to say thanks, for a lovely description of that sock, for making me feel part of the in-club (because I understood what you were talking about!) and for making me want to knit that heel (not to mention the showy leaf-ish pattern). Really helped improve my day. Thank you.

  202. These socks are just beautiful. You inspire and challenge me to want to be both a better knitter and a better person. I just read the last few blog posts including the one on your “blogiversary” (I’m playing catch up) and I just want to note how grateful I am that you blog for us to read, and that you give back to the world around us and encourage us to do so too. Thanks so much. It really does matter.

  203. Love the socks, love the heel, but really, really love sock photos with requisite sun streaming through the windows. Well done!

  205. Upon further reflection (and w/o looking through archives), I think these are my all time favorites! Luckily, I think any heather yarn would work. Kudos

  207. That pattern in that yarn on those needles should be a body suit. You should be able to wear that from neck to toe so everybody could see it all the time.
    *sigh* pretty, pretty, pretty, and, yes, dead sexy!

  208. Looks like perfect yarn for those socks. Not sure if I can do a heel as you described through. I don’t how good a knitter I am to try it.

  209. Wow! I am totally taken. Just downloaded the pattern. We are expecting a foot of snow tonight – I should be able to make some good headway on this by Monday!

  214. How did you get your feet to line up in opposite directions? i.e. in the fourth picture, you have the heel of one foot right next to the toes of the other foot, which means the heel of the other foot is lined up with the toes of the first foot. Huh?

  215. I’ve been working on valentines and had to take a break and your blog is a nice break. Love the socks. I’m to the toe on the first sock of the new year and I wish I had your heel. Love them.

  216. Well, goodness! thank you for elucidating the wonder of that heel. I hadn’t really understood how fabulous (an innovative) it is! Now I gotta have that pattern too. So… gee… thanks! (I think)
    Nice socks, those!

  218. I just fell head over heels in love with this sock. I am still working on my first pair of socks and but am lusting after yours. They are drop dead sexy in my book.

  220. Well. Hubba, hubba.
    I’m just working on my first pair of socks, so these are WAY beyond my skill at the moment… but it’s much like lusting after a gorgeous but unobtainable guy. Still satisfying. Mmmm.

  221. What I love about your pattern is the fact it’s reversable and the reverse can be cabled! Give it a try! Cheers From Resort Village Candle Lake Saskatchewan… Sandra Dogger Klassen

  222. Great photos! I definitely want to try that heel. I recently released a free hat pattern on Ravelry (Falling Leaves Hat) with a similar look. I’ll have to make the socks to match! Thanks for sharing.

  224. Ok, you have officially inspired me to knit a pair of these for myself. The photos & descriptions are fabulous and its been a while since I’ve knot anything for myself. Thanks for the inspiration!

  226. so, how do you find out about all of these great sock patterns?
    based on your description of the heel alone, i’ll be knitting a pair of these. i wouldn’t care that the leg design is almost as sexy as the heel. i would knit this heel with your plain vanilla sock attached to it, even though it has been years since i knitted a plain sock.

  227. Your socks are beautiful! I noticed and admired the custom fit right away even before reading your post. Guess us knitters do acquire an eye for that sort of thing. Another ‘sexy’ sock that I’ve admired is the ‘Lacy Bed Socks’ by Jennie Atkinson in her book Romantic Style. Have often thought that I would some day make those when I actually learn how to knit socks. In 10+ years of knitting, I have never knit a sock. It’s on my list of things to do. I really love yours. The leafy pattern is gorgeous. And your book ‘Yarn Harlot’ made me laugh more than any other book EVER! In fact, I think I’ll take it out and read it again soon. Cheerio!

  228. Sexy, indeed. I’m also quite impressed with the photo showing both the heel and toe facing the camera at the same time. It’s been twenty years since I was limber enough for such a pose.

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  232. I love these socks and am trying VERY hard not to purchase both pattern and yarn (thankfully her Etsy shop is empty). But one thing struck me: photo 4 from the top: how did you take that photo that seems to have your feet pointing in opposite directions? It’s brilliant of course because it offers two simultaneous and opposite views of the sock, but HOW?
    Is no one obsessing about this like I am?

  233. I’m a little bit behind, but just wanted to pop in and say what a brilliant idea your personal sock club is! I hope it continues to be successful. =)

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