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It took a while to convince the Trophy Wife to let me take pictures of her feet and post them on the internet. Wait, that's not as kinky as it sounds! She's been loafing about in these nice socks she was sent by our very own Patricia, OM, using yarn colors based on the Spanish Shawl nudibranch, and I just think they need to be acknowledged — but maybe you haven't noticed, but she likes to avoid the whole interwubbley fanfare. Finally, though, I caught her with her toasty warm tootsies atop an ottoman and snapped this shot, so there you are: beautiful socks and a rare image of the Trophy Wife.
Thanks, Patricia!
Comments
Posted by: Porco Dio | June 27, 2009 10:10 AM
Such Socks in Summer?
Posted by: Rev. BigDumbChimp | June 27, 2009 10:12 AM
Oh nice.
I too like socks...
Posted by: Sili
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June 27, 2009 10:12 AM
Minnesotan Summer.
I still hate snails, but I also still want to knock your off your perch as alpha-male and steal your woman.
Patricia is wonderful strumpet!
Posted by: Mendelein | June 27, 2009 10:14 AM
I always notice on Consumerist that it is the most innocent of posts that get hardcore trolled. So socks would have to be the most innocent of posts. I now await the tromping of troll feet.
Posted by: XD | June 27, 2009 10:23 AM
I can't even imagine how one would go about knitting such a stripy pattern. Nice work, Patricia!
Posted by: Robin Friedrich
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June 27, 2009 10:24 AM
Yes, we more pictures of the mysterious and lovely trophy wife!
Posted by: Becca Stareyes
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June 27, 2009 10:36 AM
Those are very nice socks. Look comfy, too. Way to go, Patricia.
XD @ #5
Speaking as a yarncrafter, normally one buys (or dyes) multi-color yarn and just works the socks as normal. I'd have to say that's what's done here, given the way the socks look. Try googling 'self-striping yarn'. Very nice looking and not any more difficult than using a solid yarn. (Can be easier -- my mother taught me to crochet on multi-color yarn so that the stitch I was working into would look different than the yarn I was using to make the next row.)
Posted by: Damien Trotter | June 27, 2009 10:46 AM
And there you have it, PZ is a self-confessed socks maniac! :P
Posted by: Marc Abian | June 27, 2009 10:52 AM
Someone forgot about rule 34.
Posted by: JD | June 27, 2009 10:54 AM
Those socks appear to have been designed.
Posted by: Felix | June 27, 2009 11:09 AM
Like a coral reef in the shimmering reflections of a tropical evening sun ALL GLORY TO THE HYPNOSOCKS!
Posted by: JenWolf
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June 27, 2009 11:11 AM
Very lovely socks! I love Ray's yarns (knitivity.com), they're so luscious and colorful.
Posted by: Nerd of Redhead, OM
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June 27, 2009 11:13 AM
If one lives in a cold climate such socks are required. Some nice work by Patricia.
Posted by: Chris Davis
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June 27, 2009 11:14 AM
Whoah! Is that sum nematocysts?
Posted by: Serafina | June 27, 2009 11:14 AM
@5 - Easy enough, you use special sock yarn that is self-patterning, i.e. the yarn is striped and the pattern emerges. :)
Posted by: Max | June 27, 2009 11:21 AM
ALL GLORY TO THE HYPNOSOCKS!
Posted by: Ray (Knitterman) | June 27, 2009 11:24 AM
Woo-HOOO!!!! THANK YOU, PZ. When Pat asked me (she saw my earlier postings here, so she knew I'd do it) to design a colorway based on the Nudibranch I was happy for the challenge. Here is a picture of another pair of socks from the same colorway combination, which I worked up myself:
http://www.knitivity.com/knitterman/?p=1599
Everyone's knitting is different so there's no end to how the colorway will work up. And the "Spanish Shawl" colorway has now been added to the regular colorway line-up for both sock yarn and laceweight yarns.
Thanks again, PZ for posting the pics!
Posted by: XD | June 27, 2009 11:35 AM
Thanks Becca and Serafina. I am slightly less baffled, now.
Posted by: Aquaria | June 27, 2009 11:35 AM
Now this is simply cruel.
High temps have been 100+ here in San Antonio for weeks now.
Socks to keep your feet warm? Somebody send me ice packs to stay cool!
Posted by: Ray (Knitterman) | June 27, 2009 11:39 AM
@ Aquaria #19 -
I'm in Houston, fercryin'outloud, and I am actually wearing my Spanish Shawl socks today. They are SO comfortable in warm weather -- wool can absorb TONS of moisture and still feel dry, so they are much better than cotton socks in the summer. Very lovely, even on a man's foot!
Posted by: Aquaria | June 27, 2009 11:45 AM
#20:
You must not be allergic to wool, like I am. It's bad enough when it's on my torso or limbs, but my feet?
::::SHUDDER::::
Posted by: Jadehawk, OM
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June 27, 2009 11:55 AM
those are some kickass socks... :-D
Posted by: dargndorp | June 27, 2009 12:13 PM
PZ, before you post pictures of your wife's lovely ankles, you might want to take out the EXIF-Info in the photo.
Your picture contains the exact GPS location of the iPhone you used to take it.
Posted by: RamblinDude
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June 27, 2009 12:16 PM
Hey, those are nice! Artsy!
Posted by: 386sx | June 27, 2009 12:16 PM
Patricia OM rocks the socks!! Wow...
Posted by: Amanda | June 27, 2009 12:25 PM
Awwwwww. :) Very cute socks, Patricia and Ray are great people.
And I can attest, wool socks are quite comfy in warm weather. If I can't be barefoot or in flip flops, wool socks are the way to go.
Posted by: charley
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June 27, 2009 12:25 PM
Knitted socks... So popular that the Sock Summit (where my wife will be teaching a class) sold out within half an hour of opening registration.
Posted by: Somnolent Aphid | June 27, 2009 12:26 PM
Warm feet is (are?) just one of the secrets to a happy marriage. I wonder if Jodi or Jason knit? Here at the aphid house knitting is part of the fabric of life. I tried it myself a few years ago, thinking it would give us one more thing in common but among the general complaints was that I was turning it into an engineering project, which a) was true and b) meant that i spent more time trying to figure out how to create patterns than actually knit any "thing". So now i let the other aphids sit and knit while I merely think about patterns and without trying to instantiate them.
Posted by: shonny
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June 27, 2009 12:33 PM
Sockophilia or sock 'em!
Posted by: Aaron Baker | June 27, 2009 12:35 PM
I find your predilection for yarn, flannel, and other warm fabrics utterly disgusting. Keep your perversion in Minnesota where it belongs.
Posted by: Roland Branconnier | June 27, 2009 12:44 PM
Pareidolia! What do you see in the pattern of these socks?
Posted by: Sven DiMilo | June 27, 2009 12:45 PM
That's a well-turned (-out) ankle, all right.
Nice sox-craft, Patricia!
Posted by: Janine, OMnivore | June 27, 2009 12:50 PM
Aaron Baker, the perversion extents much farther than Minnesota. The socks were made in Oregon.
Posted by: Naked Bunny with a Whip
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June 27, 2009 1:02 PM
Patricia can certainly put her socks on my feet, if you know what I mean. ...Because I sure don't.
Posted by: Hideki | June 27, 2009 1:11 PM
Hrm
Those socks look a bit like the plasma in Fractint (or the rainbow worlds from Star control 2 come to that), how odd. (and cool!)
I'm wondering now if it's knitted from multicolour wool or bits of it joined or just dyed after, curious either way
Posted by: Ron Sullivan | June 27, 2009 1:14 PM
Nice! Of course we all love sox and violins here.
I'm gratified to see Amy Stewart's Wicked Plants on the Seed's book picks list in the margin. Not a technical manual by any means (though she seems to have been passing out tips pretty freely in her book tour) but nice sumer reading. Maybe TW needs a copy, to entertain and inspire while you're on one of your road trips.
Posted by: Janine, OMnivore | June 27, 2009 1:16 PM
Hideki, you can find the answer earlier in the thread.
Posted by: AdamK | June 27, 2009 1:27 PM
Mass market 'em!
*steam shooting out of ears from hot sox envy*
Posted by: Elwood Herring | June 27, 2009 2:16 PM
"...toasty warm tootsies atop an ottoman..."
You really should try poetry, PZ. You have a talent for selecting the "right words in the right order".
Posted by: Kausik Datta | June 27, 2009 2:28 PM
JD @10:
And intelligently, too!!Posted by: Aaron Baker | June 27, 2009 2:35 PM
Oregon! An abomination! And not far beyond, the fleshpots of Seattle!
Posted by: Jessa | June 27, 2009 3:03 PM
Nice work, Ray and Patricia!
I have to add my two thumbs up for Ray's yarn. I knit up a pair of socks using the "Blue Jeans" colorway and they are the most beautiful and comfortable things in the world.
Posted by: George Michael | June 27, 2009 3:09 PM
I want your socks...
Posted by: gruebait | June 27, 2009 3:17 PM
Is podephile a word?
Posted by: Levi in NY | June 27, 2009 3:31 PM
Are those socks woven from two different fabrics?
Sinner!!!
Posted by: Pez | June 27, 2009 3:50 PM
I've been following this foot for a long time, never commented. Pretty much subscribe to the feet thoughts...however, reading most of these feet, it disfootens me how nasty and smelly most feet are here after the death of Dr. Scholl. I don't believe in the aftersock and try to build my foot compass on my own feet and the golden shoes. Quite appalling including the main shoe from the post...leave a strange foot. So much for kindness and good feet. Why don't people keep some feet to themselves when they have nothing good to smell? I thought the writer and the other feet in this shoe were somewhat above this podiatry.
Posted by: Rev. BigDumbChimp | June 27, 2009 3:57 PM
I'm can't decide if I'm actually finding that funny or if it's just a mild backlash to the comment spam of pez yesterday.
Posted by: Spyderkl
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June 27, 2009 4:14 PM
So, so pretty! Well done, Patricia!
I love Ray's sock yarns. I just wish I could afford to buy more often. In fact, I bought a skein of "Spanish Shawl" myself for some socks (that was a month or two ago). Still plugging away at them - spinning gets in the way of just about everything else now...
I use wool socks for camping. Really. Any time of the year, they rock when you're up in the mountains.
Posted by: Chris | June 27, 2009 4:25 PM
Looks 'shopped to me. I'm sure I can see pixels. Or is is multi-coloured stripes. Need new glasses....
Posted by: S. Rivlin | June 27, 2009 4:51 PM
I hope I'm wrong, but it looks to me as if PZ has decided to increase traffic on his blog by competing with Isis The Scientist's marketing tool. Soon we'll have one SB with shoe of the week and another with sox of the week. What next? Underwear of the week?
Posted by: cicely
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June 27, 2009 6:05 PM
Well done, Patricia!
Pez (or "Pez"), :D
Posted by: Jafafa Hots | June 27, 2009 6:18 PM
I've been told that for bike touring I need merino wool clothes including underwear. Who do I have to impress to get this stuff?
Posted by: molliebatmit | June 27, 2009 6:52 PM
Lovely socks! They look great knit up -- some bright, multicolored yarns look terrifying when actually knit into fabric.
Now somebody will have to make the Trophy Wife some Pomatomus socks (named after the bluefish) or a Trilobite hat!
Posted by: Rev. BigDumbChimp | June 27, 2009 6:55 PM
If my plan continues steamrolling forward
Bacon of the week.
Posted by: shrimplate | June 27, 2009 7:05 PM
Is this the birth of a new internet meme?
Saturday Socks Blogging?
Posted by: John Morales
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June 27, 2009 7:06 PM
Ah. On top of an ottoman, not an Ottoman.
Phew!
Posted by: 'Tis Himself
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June 27, 2009 7:10 PM
How about these socks?
Posted by: Southern Comfort | June 27, 2009 7:17 PM
Those socks ROCK!
Posted by: OurDeadSelves | June 27, 2009 11:26 PM
Who's leg do I have to hump to get an awesome pair of homemade socks?
Totally freaking jealous.
Posted by: Brian X | June 27, 2009 11:36 PM
I can't help wonder what Isis thinks of this...
Posted by: Angela | June 28, 2009 10:21 AM
After reading these comments, I predict soxual reproduction.
Posted by: Patricia, OM
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June 28, 2009 11:56 AM
Wow, nice photo PZ. I'm glad she likes the socks. They were fun to make.
Posted by: Fake Pez | June 28, 2009 6:01 PM
Actually, it was me since the original "Pez" thread. I wanted to see how long people thought it was the original Pez. Some didn't even notice when the changes started. Yeah, I have no life.
Posted by: Helene | June 28, 2009 6:19 PM
As a knitter and a bio teacher all I can say is "I love it!"
Posted by: bastion of sass | June 28, 2009 8:44 PM
Have you seen the dissected rat and frog yet?
PZ featured the rat in the thread, Knitters are such delightfully weird people.
I sent my son's anatomy teacher a photo of the rat, and his response was, "I want one! Where can I get one?!"
Posted by: chgo_liz
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June 28, 2009 11:28 PM
They are beautifully, intelligently designed socks. Patricia is clearly a human of many fine talents.
Does it bother anyone else that the right one was pulled up sideways? I want to reach through the screen and shift the foot part of that one 45-50 degrees.
Posted by: John Morales | June 29, 2009 6:55 AM
chgo_liz, yes! :)
(to both)
Posted by: Judith in Ottawa | June 29, 2009 9:49 AM
Hey, Ray, nice to see you over here! And nice to see the Sock Summit mentioned. The organisers tried to tell their ISP that there might be some pretty high demand on the opening of registration, and as usual the tide of knitters was underestimated. They broke the servers.
Anyone who wants their own socks, ask around: there's probably someone right nearby who can show you how, especially among us science nerds. And if, like me, you thought you were allergic to wool, wait until you try a high-quality product like Ray's Knitivity yarns. You won't believe it's sheep!
Posted by: Qwerty | June 29, 2009 3:10 PM
And I thought Patricia OM only socked it to trolls posting at PZ's website?
They look very nice.
Posted by: defective robot | June 29, 2009 7:04 PM
Those are socks that would make Tom Baker proud.
Posted by: Patricia, OM
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June 29, 2009 8:38 PM
Tom Baker!
Thank you everyone for the nice compliments. The Trophy Wife's well turned ankles could probably make Dollar Store socks look good.
Qwerty - Never fear, I'm tatting up a set of nooses for the trolls.
Posted by: Zafaran | June 29, 2009 9:27 PM
Wool socks in summer were a fantastic discovery ten years ago when I discovered SmartWool socks when I worked a rafting river as part of one of the river outfitter's staff. These days I knit my own socks of machine-washable merino wool/nylon blends, and wear them year round with sandals. For those of you who can't wear wools (and some folks are truly allergic), there are some nice bamboo/nylon blends that will wick moisture away from your skin, though not to the degree that wool will. For cooler weather, there are some very nice sock blends with camalid fibers like llama and alpaca, and a very interesting blend in yak/nylon. Cotton tends to trap moisture which is why you get miserable, stinky wet feet when you wear cotton socks in summer. And almost all the natural fiber blends can be found in undyed versions for folks who are dye sensitive, and can give you an alternative to the white cotton sock. There are also sock yarns without the nylon for those who don't like it, but the nylon helps with durability of the sock.
Posted by: Leslie Charles | June 30, 2009 6:34 PM
Hmmm.
It appears to me that the socks were put on in haste and with no thought of wearing them for long or with a shoe. Clue: The twisted toe section of the right sock (which appears on the left side of the self-taken photo).
The sock on the right foot needs a half turn to fit properly (see left foot for comparison).
IMHO, a woman would not wear a twisted sock.
Between that overlooked detail and the camera angle I'm wondering if TW turned down your offer and you decided to be your own model. Regardless, the socks are beauts!
Posted by: Leslie Charles | June 30, 2009 6:35 PM
Hmmm.
It appears to me that the socks were put on in haste and with no thought of wearing them for long or with a shoe. Clue: The twisted toe section of the right sock (which appears on the left side of the self-taken photo).
The sock on the right foot needs a half turn to fit properly (see left foot for comparison).
IMHO, a woman would not wear a twisted sock.
Between that overlooked detail and the camera angle I'm wondering if TW turned down your offer and you decided to be your own model. Regardless, the socks are beauts!