Comments on: Bells are Ringing

By: Rachel

Rachel — Thu, 29 Nov 2007 22:21:36 +0000

Squeeeee! There are emeralds! Stunning! Beautiful! Want! Emeralds!

By: Emma in Seattle

Emma in Seattle — Thu, 29 Nov 2007 22:37:40 +0000

I love the patterning you’ve done in the flap and gusset heel. And I think the two versions (cable and colourwork) of Kent Treble Bob Major are great. I really look forward to getting my kit.

By: helen (of troy)

helen (of troy) — Thu, 29 Nov 2007 23:36:26 +0000

have you seen this?
http://www.amazon.com/Making-Mathematics-Needlework-Papers-Projects/dp/1568813317
?

Sarah-marie Belcastro is also a member of Ravelry.. (in the geeky knitters group..)

Too bad you just completed the pattern now.. it could have gone into the book..

by the way most of the math explainations are available free on line..(none of the patterns are!)

By: Donna

Donna — Fri, 30 Nov 2007 03:44:06 +0000

There’s so much attention to detail: the colors (thanks, Jennifer), the cables, the heels and toes. Oh my. I’m going to be stalking the mail woman.

By: Lynne

Lynne — Fri, 30 Nov 2007 04:56:35 +0000

You already know, in exhaustive detail, what I think about the background of this sock. It only remains to tell you how fantastic it is to finally see it in its ‘public’ guise! Congratulations!

On to “Fearful Symmetry”!

By: Cathy-Cate

Cathy-Cate — Fri, 30 Nov 2007 06:19:39 +0000

As usual, the whole is more than the sum of its parts, and what parts they are! The golden angels with their emeralds peeking out from their feet, the floodwater-gray sock, Jennifer’s colors popping (nice choice from the gazillion possible permutations!), the change-ringing cabling, the little heel and toe details that are the icing on the cake (and we’re talking buttercream icing here, not the cheap stuff!). Ar-mazing. Little works of art for one’s feet, indeed.

By: stacey

stacey — Fri, 30 Nov 2007 13:34:16 +0000

wow. that is one amazing piece of sock art!!!! all the work that went into it - all the details! it’s amazing!

By: Pat

Pat — Fri, 30 Nov 2007 13:44:00 +0000

Oh my God I’m plotzing!!!

By: Juno

Juno — Fri, 30 Nov 2007 14:32:32 +0000

You are the geek of my heart, I swear it.

By: Astrid Bear

Astrid Bear — Fri, 30 Nov 2007 16:37:05 +0000

Wow! You and Jennifer have quite outdone yourselves — the yarn colors are amazing ( the variegation in the main sock color is especially fine), and the pattern is just astonishing. The tiny bell on the toe! The cables down the heel! The wee angels! The insanely beautiful colorwork panel! Count me number one on the waiting list when the pattern is released to the general public.

By: Nori

Nori — Fri, 30 Nov 2007 18:37:55 +0000

GORGEOUS! That’s just….I’m speechless. What a stunningly gorgeous sock.

I can’t wait to get it when they’re available to non-club members. Also can’t wait for my paycheck to clear to sign up for 2008 sock club, get my boyfriend another Oktoberfest kit to replace the first one he lost on the bus *grumble* and maybe get myself a Vintage or Kitri kit to keep me from freaking out over the prospect of not being able to get my hands on Nine Tailors quite yet (I know how Veruca Salt that sounds, but I’ve come to terms with the fact that your sock kits have that effect on me).

By: Philip Johnson

Philip Johnson — Fri, 30 Nov 2007 19:44:42 +0000

Fantastic. Dorothy L. Sayers and Lord Peter must be laughing their socks off.

By: Connie

Connie — Fri, 30 Nov 2007 20:56:13 +0000

Laughing their ….. Oh, no. Surely not. Chuckling a little at this highly idiosyncratic (and beyond beautiful) tribute, I will grant you, but really. Lord Peter’s far too gentlemanly, and –I actually know much less about his creator than he himself, but I am sure that D.L.S. wouldn’t do anything so irreverent.

The emeralds — and the delicate reference thereof — are splendid. I, personally, am rather glad the kit is currently only for sock clubbers –I would be *obliged* to buy it for myself, and probably derail everything I’m knitting for the next month. Not a good thing for Christmas knitting (I am undertaking only two items, but one is a) a complex pattern, and b) undertaken with the sketchiest of information. Very nerve-wracking).

I swear I will buy it. I will buy it, and the Imbas, and I will learn how to cable. (And I will *totally* keep them both for myself, because no one else in my family properly appreciates handknits.)

By: Lyrel

Lyrel — Mon, 03 Dec 2007 06:06:58 +0000

These socks are truly beautiful, and so unique.

I am catching up on your blog, after several hectic weeks, and this particular entry stopped me in my tracks.

I must sign up for the 2008 sock club - Lord knows when I get the knitting done - but you have TOO MANY BEAUTIFUL SOCKS THAT I DON’T WANT TO MISS.

Congrats on an especially beautiful design.

By: Beth in WI

Beth in WI — Tue, 04 Dec 2007 18:31:18 +0000

Bravo!

Don’t worry folks, there’s another geeky knitting book in the works. This pattern will be SOOOOOO showcased. It will take a while, certainly, but I think you’ll enjoy it.

By: kmkat

kmkat — Tue, 04 Dec 2007 19:09:36 +0000

Okay, I may need to retrieve my copy of The Nine Tailors from wherever it lurks and reread. Gorgeous sock!

By: Deborah (a.k.a. Mt. Mom)

Deborah (a.k.a. Mt. Mom) — Mon, 10 Dec 2007 07:01:45 +0000

If Astrid is first on the list for the sock when it goes beyond-club, let me be second!

Congratulations, L-lisa.

By: dichroic

dichroic — Fri, 06 Jun 2008 02:06:34 +0000

Good Lord. Wow.

(Here via the LordPeter discussion group, where someone linked this post.) Is the book Beth in WI mentioned anywhere near extant yet?

By: Carolyn

Carolyn — Tue, 14 Apr 2009 14:52:05 +0000

Oh, oh, oh, I NEED to knit these socks. How soon, how, when, where, can I get kit and/or pattern?
Carolyn in Leesburg, VA (change ringer in Frederick MD and knitter since 1966)

By: Pat Meinecke

Pat Meinecke — Wed, 20 May 2009 02:14:45 +0000

I NEED that sock pattern (change ringing). I’m not a tower ringer but am devoted to hand bells. Has that pattern been published? It is sooo-ooo-o cool!

By: Admonit

Admonit — Fri, 02 Jul 2010 22:20:42 +0000

Love it! Thanks!