Soxperiment
I'm trying a soxperiment starting this week.
H has very hard skin on his heels*. Consequently the heels of his socks do not last very long. At all. Like not even a week.
Not the socks I knit him, you understand. They are fine, but too hot to wear for work at any time. In cold weather it's too hot at work because his colleagues are hot-house flowers who'd benefit from turning their central heating thermostats down by a degree or two and wearing an extra jumper. Or even a jumper. Period. They'd save themselves a lot of money too. Since summer finally seems to have icumen in, no cuckoo singing, ludley or otherwise, no swifts either, it's too hot anywhere. These perforated socks are cotton mix ones, shop bought. Mind you, his heels work through even those marketed as 'Indestructible Socks'. You can get them, my Dad used to wear them. They still hole though.
We got hold of some jute yarn a while back. I knitted socks, in the hope that they'd be cooler, and last longer. S'pose it took a couple of weeks for them to hole. Which was something, though not marvelous!
Anyhew, the other day I came across some sock yarn in a wool**/cotton/something mix. Ah ha! Now. maybe, he can have some socks which last intact longer. The yarn is on order. Unfortunately it's a space-dyed knits-up-into-'patterned'-socks type of yarn. I chose the quietest colourway in the hope that the socks will be suitably Man Sock-like, and Man-at-Work-Sock-like in particular. I'm now considering re-inforcing strategies. These socks should have, I hope, at least semi-industrial strength heels.
I'll let you know.
*S'pose we could also invest in some heel balm. Hmmmm.
**You (almost) have to have wool in sock yarn. Wool is naturally stretchy, it produces a durable knitted fabric, specially with a bit of added nylon. Cotton, on the other hand, isn't stretchy at all, so you have to add wool and/or some form of elastane.
Y'all have a good day now!
H has very hard skin on his heels*. Consequently the heels of his socks do not last very long. At all. Like not even a week.
Not the socks I knit him, you understand. They are fine, but too hot to wear for work at any time. In cold weather it's too hot at work because his colleagues are hot-house flowers who'd benefit from turning their central heating thermostats down by a degree or two and wearing an extra jumper. Or even a jumper. Period. They'd save themselves a lot of money too. Since summer finally seems to have icumen in, no cuckoo singing, ludley or otherwise, no swifts either, it's too hot anywhere. These perforated socks are cotton mix ones, shop bought. Mind you, his heels work through even those marketed as 'Indestructible Socks'. You can get them, my Dad used to wear them. They still hole though.
We got hold of some jute yarn a while back. I knitted socks, in the hope that they'd be cooler, and last longer. S'pose it took a couple of weeks for them to hole. Which was something, though not marvelous!
Anyhew, the other day I came across some sock yarn in a wool**/cotton/something mix. Ah ha! Now. maybe, he can have some socks which last intact longer. The yarn is on order. Unfortunately it's a space-dyed knits-up-into-'patterned'-socks type of yarn. I chose the quietest colourway in the hope that the socks will be suitably Man Sock-like, and Man-at-Work-Sock-like in particular. I'm now considering re-inforcing strategies. These socks should have, I hope, at least semi-industrial strength heels.
I'll let you know.
*S'pose we could also invest in some heel balm. Hmmmm.
**You (almost) have to have wool in sock yarn. Wool is naturally stretchy, it produces a durable knitted fabric, specially with a bit of added nylon. Cotton, on the other hand, isn't stretchy at all, so you have to add wool and/or some form of elastane.
Y'all have a good day now!