My sock is coming along. I think I'm in the homestretch now which is nice. I'm enjoying it and I think I have learned why I always mess up the gussets and how to avoid that in the future. Which is good, now I can have more sockfidence.
This week I read Homeward Bound by Emily Matchar which was a fascinating read. It's about this movement to embrace and celebrate the domestic arts again with cooking and crafting and blogging about it all. She covers the history of domesticity and then looks at how this recent resurgence of interest connects to the economy and parenting and gender roles and the internet. Her research is extensive and it's eerie how she seems to have read all the same books and blogs that I have read in the last year or so. In a time when most of the people I know are making jam and/or knitting and/or keeping chickens or bees in the city and at parties we all end up talking about our gardens, this book seems like a perfect depiction of our moment in time and culture. I also appreciate how she calls out the class issues in living this way and points out how very few people can make a living off their blog or etsy shop. Highly recommended.
Linking with Ginny for Yarn Along.
8 comments:
love that word sockfidance! Yes I just finished my first pair so I might steal it! Love your sock!!
nice knit; that book looks fascinating.
lovely sock, once I turn the heel I think it's smooth sailing :)
Love the colour of your socks and your lovely word sockfidence!
The book sounds really interesting thank you for sharing.
Love that yarn! Your socks look amazing and the book sounds like a wonderful read! xxx
Interesting book.....sort of like the Art of Domesticity? (which I love---although sort of a picturebook, too; yours sounds more researched!)
once you get the hang of those gussets---you are home free. (you have been told, though, that you are likely now to become obsessed with socks, right?)
Glad to see you have your sockfidence back! I love the socks you made me so I knew you would do it!!
Have you read Radical Homemakers? Sounds like you would love it also. And the sock is beautiful!
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