Knitting for the GM
I've just got back from a week in Norfolk playing in a four-day roleplaying mini-campaign during which I occupied my hands (in between dice rolling) with knitting socks for the GM. If this was in the hope of receiving extra shinies, the hope was foiled so it's probably best if I say it was merely for love of him* that I was knitting him socks :-) Technically, as you will see from the previous entry, I began the sock before leaving, but as this photo demonstrates, I also began the second sock before coming home again**, so it's a whole sock from four*** days of roleplaying, not just most of one.
The sock looks a slightly peculiar shape laid out like that, but his GMliness assures me that it fits (somewhat to my disgruntlement - I had been faintly hoping it would be too small so I could keep them for myself). There are more pictures on Flickr and Ravelry, but some of them are too pale and the colours look all pastelly. And the gorgeous linen stitch texture just doesn't photograph well at all, but the finished sock is very nice indeed. I'm pleased with the way the colours have arranged themselves - properly variegated, rather than the almost-stripes that variegated yarn more usually produces, and which I don't like - and the pattern's nice too. Still loving New Pathways. I'm intrigued, however, to notice that Bordhi uses the same heel in both directions. Which makes perfect sense - it's just a right angle, and doesn't much care which way it faces - but is surprising and new to me, and features the section I think of as the heel flap (although not in the usual top-down sense with the picked up stitches around the edges) sitting under the heel of the foot rather than behind it. This might not be clear in the photo, partly because the back of the heel is ribbed, which looks a bit like heel stitch in a picture.
Nice pattern, anyway. Nice yarn, nice sock. Now I just have to get on with the second one...
*OK, and/or for love of knitting socks.
**You'll just have to take my word for it that I haven't knit a stitch between getting home and taking this photo.
***Although I was only knitting on three of those days for various boring and annoying reasons.
