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Socks. Yes, more socks


My mother asked me for socks, lace socks. I decided that the multi coloured sock yarn I got from Kris' destash would be perfect. Looking around Ravelry I found Embossed Leaves, from Interweave Favorite Socks, a book I bought sometime before 2011, which has survived my many and various culls. I really liked the way it looked in multi coloured yarn, and I really like the way it came out in the yarn I used. There are two odd things: It uses a different cast on, and I think I did it wrong, because in the Interweave pictures the cast on looks lovely, almost like a tubular cast-on. 

Mine looks fine, but not like that.I did the first and second differently - the second (on the right) is closer.
 And the toe shape is a bit interesting too.

It will be fine for my mother, she has very flat toes. partly because 25 years ago she had arthritis in her big toes and they removed the big toe joints. I've always joked that her fat little feet look like they have been hit on the ends by a hammer - they are wide and short and chubby. Jokes on me though, I looked at my own feet and realised they are very, very similar... except she wears a size three shoe, which makes her quite the joy to knit socks for, I must say.


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