Monkey!

Pattern: Monkey socks
Yarn: Fleece Artist merino sock yarn in Autumn, one skein
Needles: Size 2 dpns

It is damn near impossible to decently photograph so much red, and in such dismal, rain-drizzled lighting it's that much trickier. I tried every setting on my camera but each time the reds came out super-saturated, so much that it obscured the pattten. At the same time the poor lighting muted the surrounding colors. Wacky combination! I ended up desaturating in Photoshop to subdue the reds.

This was a very fast knit, despite the fact that I haven't been knitting much in the last couple of weeks. I'll be honest, at first glance I wasn't really excited about this pattern, but it is very flattering knitted up and looks much prettier in person.

That Cookie. That mad genius of a Cookie. It is almost unholy the things she comes up with.

Some mods:
1) 2-stitch garter stitch gutter on either side of the heels.
I think I might start doing that with all my heels. It's pretty.

2) Very long toes.
Not intentional, until I decided to leave it the way it is. I tried a more rounded toe instead of the usual wedge toe by decreasing every 4th row for a couple of rows, then decreasing every 3rd row for a couple of rows, then every other row until there were 16 stitches total left. The result of that was a very long toe. The sock still fits just fine - it just looks a little goofy with the toe starting so early. But since my BFF is even less of a perfectionist than I am (right?), I'm OK with leaving the them the way they are. No sleep lost over that!

3) Cat-hair infused yarn.
Creates a lovely, soft halo around the socks.

A quick Soak and a dry, and off to NYC they go!

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