neighbourhood tunnels

My Socktopus Sock Club parcel came yesterday, as it did for many. But you see there's something special about this one that none of the other get. This one is my  Socktopus Sock Club parcel.

My Socktopus parcel with my own sock pattern. Although I first started tinkering with the pattern in July, it didn't really come together until shortly before Alice sidled up to me one night at iKnit with a proposal back in November. I've been keeping dutifully silent about this ever since. I didn't even admit to it when I asked a trusted friend to test-knit for me (though she guessed because nothing gets by her). I said nothing when I was given free (if vicarious) reign over dye pots and colourways, nor when some things didn't go quite as planned and the sock had to be test-knit again by another trusted friend.

Yet those weren't hard to keep schtum. Those were the secrets you keep before someone's birthday, when anxiety over whether the recipient will like the gift you chose just for them keeps you from saying a word.  Those were the secrets that made me giggle whenever anyone wondered aloud what Bells and Whistles would bring next. (Which is indeed probably how Mel worked it out. Note to self: stop tittering when the subject of your subterfuge is mentioned indirectly.) (It's at this point that I start to wonder how we managed to keep any days in March hidden from the lately wed Mrs Alice. Every single one of us in on that are lousy stinking blabbermouths find it difficult to keep things from people when those things are particularly exciting.)

No, the impossible secret that I had to keep was sent to me by email in early February bearing the words 'the band okay'd it' -- 'it' being distributing copies of Funeral on CDs emblazoned with a picture of my foot sneaking out of the crocuses, along with the pattern. The band ok'd it. The band whose name is printed on the label. That band.  Apparently there's a knitter squirrelled away in the band who kind of dug the idea that a song of theirs might have inspired a pair of socks.

When later I played the first song, the song for which my sock pattern is named, on the CD bearing my knit-clad foot, I swear it never sounded so good.

Comments

[ysolda]

That rocks!

[probablyjane]

Gorgeous! The whole concept comes together beautifully.

[Mel]

Ems they are fab. I am even enjoying the colour now after my initial concerns after that other pair I knitted. You know the ones. Well thanks to you and your help this afternoon I am now able (well have experienced) how to start a toe up sock. Thank you again. xx

[Auglaise]

That is so very very cool! I'm now even *more* upset that I couldn't sign up for the Sock(topus) Club. Well, that'll teach me! They look absolutely stunning! ^_^

[Robynn]

Woooooww! Go you! That is very awesome indeed.

[Sharon]

OH MY GOD!

xx

[Katie]

That's great. I'm impressed. I've given thought to designing something.

[Clare]

Oh lorks, that is the awesomest thing I think I've ever heard. Arcade Fire socks!! I have to go and lie down.

[Lara]

That is amazingly cool! Hurrah for knitting band members! And beautiful socks as well. I'm so impressed.
Lx
PS - a compliation CD of socks would be fabulous.

[Laura]

Emmms, that is so cool! You should design some more socks named after songs...would make a great compilation CD!