I was chilly this morning. In fact, I’ve been chilly every morning this week. I’d lodge a complaint about that but there is no official government agency to take weather complaints (yet) and I’m probably the only one in Austin who is cold… so far. But I’m cold-natured, aka wimpy, and for me its sock weather. Wool sock weather.
Being chilly is keeping me motivated on my Skew Socks. I have the left heel/mini-gusset all finished up and back on its circular needles. Which makes it much easier to try on and check the fit.
Fits pretty darn good.
The heel on the right sock is next on my to-do list. Its on a set of double pointed needles ready to go.
I’m sitting here with chilly toes and chilly fingertips and I can’t knit them fast enough. I could turn on the heat. I’ve thought about turning on the heat. But I’m resisting. Only really crazy people turn on the heat when they wake up and find its 76 degrees (that’s 24 deg Celsius for all you living anywhere that’s not the USA) in their home. I’m only a little bit crazy so I just put on a jacket. Then I put some yarn on my feet, aka an already knit-up pair of socks.
Then I put some yarn on the teapot and brewed myself a steaming pot of heaven.
Oh there is still coffee. There is always coffee. But when I’m cold, I’m a two-fisted drinker; I like to have a mug of coffee AND tea at hand. (Still only a little bit crazy.) The pattern for the tea cozy is a freebie, by the way. Its a design by Crochetroo and you can grab a copy for yourself right here.
From fall through on to spring is sock weather for me. I have the sock weight socks for now. I’ll be stepping up to the worsted weight and chunky weight socks when it gets really cold, like say in the 60’s. Brrr! I wish I had enough pairs of handknit wool socks to wear every single day from now until summer. But I don’t and some days I have to settle for store bought wool socks. However, rest assured that I will not be, will never-ever be, like this:
Guess what the title of that painting is? Cold feet. It by Martin Lubner and I would say that someone needs to knit Martin a pair of socks but I won’t. He lives in New York and I’m sure that his feet are always cold. I’m also sure certain that he could find his sock drawer if he wanted to. He’s probably suffering on purpose for his art. That’s even crazier than turning on the heat at 76 degrees.
Btw, when I wake up to 69 degrees or less, I’ll be done with acting tough. I’ll just crank that heater up. And drink coffee. And tea. And put on wool socks.
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14 Comments on "Sock weather is Here"
I’m cold too. In Henderson, Texas, East Texas. Sitting in my office wishing I could be home crocheting or knitting, or quilting. I do have on socks, but sure could use these you previewed here. Think I will try knitting once again. Thanks, and hope you get warm, say around May 15, 2016, right?
Yep, I’ll be warming up sometime in May. Maybe April if I’m lucky!
I bet you are cold. The only thing worse than a chilly morning is go inside a huge building that ran the AC all night. I shiver just imagining it.
That picture ‘looks’ like my feet ‘feel’ when the weather turns cold. Here in central Alabama it was 46 when I got up and now it’s 80. Most definitely a sock morning. Funny how cooler weather spurs certain urges like completing the sweater in my WIP bag. One sleeve and a little assembly and done. Now I won’t feel guilty when I’m at the LYS Friday buying enough wool to make several pairs of the new-found crochet sock pattern.
Exactly. Cold weather is a great kick in the butt to get our WIPs done and start new ones! Have a great time at the LYS.
I hate cold. Winter or AC, doesn’t matter. I don’t do cold. BUT! I do have a pair of hand knit alpaca socks that see a lot of use all winter.
The freezing feet in the painting really need that cat to cuddle into. Cats give out an amazing heat. Even my feet can’t take alpaca socks with a cat on top.
Yes, that cat does need to pitch in and warm up those feet. I personally have never been able to get a kitty to sit on my feet in the winter time and I have really, really tired. Cats never do what you tell them to do. Its part of theirr charm.
The ‘paca socks sound nice. Alpaca socks are like foot ovens!
Maybe you just need to find someone like me and let them stick their cold hands/feet/nose of you! You can be like a symbiotic pair. 🙂
I am sorry that you are always so uncomfortable. When/if I develop my superhero super power it will be the ability to telepathically draw the body heat out of people and keep it for myself. When that happens I’ll come find you.
That would be fab. I kept hearing how menopause will make me cold, but I passed it a few years ago, & I only get kind of chilled.
Looking forward to you getting your superpowers, I’ll be fanning myself while I wait 😀
As soon as I get them, I’ll come see you!
First day of wearing socks for me today – but temperatures are near freezing in the morning for a few days already. Yesterday I finally decided it was time to put my Swedish clogs into rest for the winter. 🙂
I’m really really glad there are tough people like you to live in and take care of Northern Europe. If it were up to people like me, we would have to cede that part of the earth to wild animals and stay alien visitors.
🙂 But I’m only in Central Europe, far away from the north. But then the the lower 48 US is – from our point of view – quite south, with New York being south of Barcelona and Texas being about the same as northern Africa. 😉
I live about the same line as the US-Canada border, though our climate is much milder than yours.
Still, I’m not tough enough to live there. I need the summers to be filled with heat soaked days that make me go “ahhh”. I’m already looking forward to the return of those days.