{"id":8552,"date":"2018-11-18T01:08:41","date_gmt":"2018-11-18T06:08:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.spritewrites.net\/?p=8552"},"modified":"2018-11-18T05:08:55","modified_gmt":"2018-11-18T10:08:55","slug":"azalea-socks-in-the-not-wildwood","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.spritewrites.net\/?p=8552","title":{"rendered":"azalea socks in the (not) wildwood"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This is cheating a bit, because I completed these socks back in August, but I&#8217;m pretty sure I never showed you the finished socks. Today was my first time wearing them, August not being particularly conducive to sporting wool, so I thought I&#8217;d get a couple glamour shots from the park I visited (Chuck Brown Memorial\/Langdon Park). Unfortunately, I didn&#8217;t remember I wanted to take pictures until the sun was already down (which does somewhat negate the purpose of waiting to model the socks until the clouds went away), so I was racing against the gloaming.<\/p>\n<p><center><a href=\"https:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/spriteshoots\/45210074314\/in\/dateposted\/\" title=\"Azalea Socks at Chuck Brown Memorial Park\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/farm5.staticflickr.com\/4864\/45210074314_ae439b662e.jpg\" width=\"400\" height=\"300\" alt=\"Azalea Socks at Chuck Brown Memorial Park\"><\/a><\/center><\/p>\n<p>These were supposed to be my springtime socks, knit in time to model with the local azalea bloom season, but those plans didn&#8217;t come to flower. <\/p>\n<p><center><a href=\"https:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/spriteshoots\/45021904075\/in\/photostream\/\" title=\"Azalea Socks Out and About\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/farm5.staticflickr.com\/4901\/45021904075_d797bd311b.jpg\" width=\"400\" height=\"300\" alt=\"Azalea Socks Out and About\"><\/a><\/center><\/p>\n<p>The details:<\/p>\n<p>The yarn is Knitterly Things Vesper Sock in merino in the In the Wildwood colorway. I knit my standard picot stockinette default for stripey socks, but used two needle sizes this time &#8212;  2.5 mm for the leg and 2.25 mm for the feet. I started them April 26th and finished August 12th.<\/p>\n<p>Expect more shots of FOs in the next week!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This is cheating a bit, because I completed these socks back in August, but I&#8217;m pretty sure I never showed you the finished socks. 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