Goodbye Clandestine sock pattern. Hello Spring Fern pattern. So much better. I’m now playing catch up.
Watching the Olympics here brings home that I no longer live in Scandinavia. The Finland – Russia ice hockey game was just mentioned in passing, the cross-skiing events barely gets a look in (Denmark has always been crap but we’d always show some support for Norway) and we do not get wall-to-wall coverage of the figure-skating events. I remember growing up and getting to watch all the figure-skating qualifying rounds; now I get edited highlights of the top three athletes. But, I do get to see events like speed skating and the luge which I have rarely seen before. In fact I stayed up very, very late last night just to see who won the luge. Ooh, the excitement (and subsequent day of tiredness).
I’ll leave you with a little link I have been saving for rainy day like today: Hipster Puppies. Unsurprisingly I’m finding this photo absolutely hilarious and I may have said something like this when I was twenty-one and unbearably pretentious.
The socks look great this time! :)
Your sock looks lovely.
I once spent the duration of the summer Olympics in Denmark and was surprised to find that the only sports covered seemed to be weightlifting and ping pong.
I can imagine British winter Olympics coverage is similarly quirky. Whenever I catch it, it seems to be one of the sports where we’re hoping to come in the top 15.
Your decision to rip has made me think again about my current socks. One of them is so incredibly fussy that it embarrasses me – who am I trying to impress?! And the other one is for my husband, who just wants warm feet, so why am I fiddling about with a yarnissima pattern and taking forever to get anywhere? Much better to go for something simple and striking and wearable!