The Heathen Housewife

Heya, everybody! I’ve got my final report ready on the Bacchus socks, but first let me give a little update on the handspun yarn sale I mentioned yesterday. I just sent out e-mail responses, and it looks like all but the pastel merino 2-ply is spoken for. Someone even wanted to buy the crack-smokin’ violet! In the mean time, I’ve actually started and finished a small spinning project and started another. I’m sure there will be another round of handspun sales eventually.

That, and I think I’m done dyeing yarn with food colors – there is only so much free time, and I’ve been there and done that. So as soon as I can motivate to take some pictures of those supplies I’ll offer them up to my loyal readers. It’s going to be a good deal.

On to the main purpose of this post – the new socks. These socks are really really pretty, although incredibly hard to photograph. I need to go take a photography class some day to figure out how to capture the texture of the knitted fabric better. At least with the digital camera I can take 20 bazillion tries and only show you the least-bad attempts.

Joe took this one, and you can see they fit me just fine, and look fine on, but not so much of the grapevine detail.

Here they are on the sock blockers, and in the natural sunlight the bobbles are a little more visible if you know what you’re looking at.

From a lower angle, you can see the texture even a bit more.

And here’s an up-close-and-personal one that really lets you see the bobbles. I love bobbles.

And to repeat the details, this is the Bacchus Socks pattern by Alice Bell, published in Interweave Knits Fall 2008. I knit them using the Cherries colorway of Merino Slim Sock from the Knittery. This yarn was delicious to knit with, a nice tight twist and on the lighter side of fingering. I used size 00 Addi Turbos to knit them up.

I think these socks will be going to the Fair, so that means I’ll tuck them away in the yarn closet and keep them unworn till next Fall. This was a fun pattern to knit, with gratifying results.

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