How much is there to say about another pair of knit socks?

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Hermoine Everyday Socks
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Well, not too much this time, although it is possible to extol  at length the pleasures of simple projects and custom-made footwear. I was worried that the pattern wouldn’t work with the multi-coloured yarn.  Usually I refuse to combine texture and colour variation; I have seen so many nice patterns spoiled by splotchy yarns. But  I was really needing something beyond plain knitting and I think the combination worked.  The texture is mostly lost in many lights, but isn’t ugly in any of them.

Hermoine Everyday Socks (also available as a tidy pdf through Ravelry)

Regia Galaxy Saturn, 1582

These socks are a great project, simple yet interesting.  And  I was suckered in by the designer’s description of her inspiration: ” Hermione, as described in J.K. Rowling’s Harry Potter Series, is a rather smart and practical heroine. While she can dress up with the best of them, these socks remind me of something she might wear while practicing charms or transfiguration or reading up on Arithromancy in the Gryffindor Common Room.”

(I didn’t do the heel, ‘though I wanted to.  It would have been lost in the colours.  I’m tempted to knit this again in a more solid, paler yarn.)

This puts me on track for my 12 in 12 sock goal.  5th pair done in the 5th month.  The fourth pair are a sad failure, having felted during the first (gentle) washing.  Arg.

As for my other 12 in 12 goals, I phoned and wrote to my grandparents.  I’m overcoming my phear of the phone, at least when it comes to these beloved people.

But I’m conflicted about the 3rd goal – the one about reading.  I read “The Inimitable Jeeves” while also reading “Emperor of the North: Sir George Simpson and the Remarkable Story of the Hudson’s Bay Company”.  I’m conflicted.  Does P.G. Wodehouse count toward the goal? I have long wanted to read a Jeeves and Wooster book, but I did pick it up to have a lighter companion to the biography.  Do I count it or do I wait the 100 pages left in “Emperor” and call that my book?

I went back to the original 12 in 12 post for guidance.  I wrote: “Parenting, crafting, and  homeschooling books don’t count.  Neither do fluffy reads.”  Hmmm.  Is this a fluffy read?  It was delightful fun.  Oh, I don’t know.  Wade in and give me advice.

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