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I’m out of clever titles at the moment, so I’ll just share some yarn pr0n.* I finally wound up my Tausendschön sock yarn, color Ara {ravel it} — and, boy, is it BRITE, which makes me love it even more. I’m flashy at heart. (See this post over at glampyre; it helped me embrace my inner flashy.) Right now, I’m considering the perfect pattern to pair with such eye-searing yarn.

On the other end of the flashy spectrum, exhibit 2: some lovely Rancho multi sock yarn from Araucania, color PY498 {ravel it}. It reminds me of pebbles or quartz or something earthy beachy like that. In a potentially controversial move, I decided to use this yarn for the Interweave Sockalong [blog] {ravel it} and knit some August socks in September. Hence, the Waving Lace lovelies above [interweave] {ravel it}.

So far, the pattern is pretty, simple, and quick to knit. A winner! The scalloped lace cuff was a bit too girly for me (although I wouldn’t hesitate to knit said girly cuff for my sister) but the 1×1 ribbing option was perfect. Rancho multi is a bit on the thicker side of sock weight — I’m using US2/3.00mm circs — and the pattern is very stretchy, so I’m a bit worried about fit. Yarn permitting, I might make the leg slightly longer, allowing the cuff to sit slightly higher on the leg. Still too early to tell.

Alice is not impressed. She can’t lay on socks.

* The more I think about it, the less I mind the yarn pr0n moniker. This was under discussion a while ago, on Ashley’s blog [with a follow up here] among others. I’m sure it was on Ravelry too, but I can’t be bothered to find the specific thread. My view: play and playfulness need to come back into the debate, not just the super-serious rejection or reclamation of a term usually employed to exploit, objectify, and/or pathologize women and (female) sexuality. Because surely using the term “porn” to describe a photograph of yarn is — to the wider world of (admittedly woefully unenlightened) non-knitters — already kind of silly.