This is not my foot, sock or photo.
Wow, a knitting post. I'm averaging about one a month these days so I can still call this a knitting blog in certain circles and get away with it.
I'm fascinated with the intricacies and hierarchies of obscure niche interests. Perusing hobby magazines and online forums allows a peek* into the levels of controversy among weird interest groups. (MyBigBro is maybe a little too into this stuff, but I admire his enthusiasms.)
The knitting world contains these quirky stratifications as well. As I've noted before, right now socks are the hip thing. There's a bit of controversy, archness and even snobbery around sock knitting. There are endless discussions about heels, toes, gussets, sizing, yarn and even basic sock design on Ravelry, the facebook for knitters. (The site is so much more than that, but I've covered that before.)
There is a whole subset of sockists, led by a designer named Cat Bordhi, who play with sockitecture, the basic structure of the sock. (Stay with me here.) We're talking unusual directions, higher geometry and re-imagining the sock as we know it. Grabbing conventional sock knitting by the heel, really.
Being the trend-slave that I am, I've dipped my toe into the sock swirl as well. (I'm trying hard not to use a lot of foot puns in this post, but a few tip-toe in.) The latest craze is a sock pattern called Skew. As the designer writes, "Skew takes the concept of the bias design element to a new extreme by turning the entire architecture of the sock, including the heel, on the diagonal."
If you're interested in learning more, and I know you are, check out the description and pattern. It will blow your tiny sock mind.
*peek, as opposed to pique and peak. That's a grammar-rant post for another day.
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