197 Gradual Stiffening

The weather. Men in shorts. The run down. Ta Da moments. And the moments just before a plan comes together.
The Red Edge is complete!
The chart for Red Edge was designed by Anna-Lisa Mannheimer Lunndown (ravelry.com/patterns/library/polar-arc-top-down), and is from the book Poems of Colour (ravelry.com/patterns/sources/poems-of-color-kn…), by Wendy Keele. I used the top down set-in sleeve method pioneered by Elizabeth Doherty (quinceandco.com/products/top-down?_pos=1&_…). I talked about this method at length in 153 I, Curator (brendadayne.co.uk/2021/05/22/153-i-curator).
My Summer(s) of Socks
2022: Ipomoea (ravelry.com/patterns/library/ipomoea-socks-2), Lunaria (ravelry.com/patterns/library/lunearia-socks) and the gradient-dyed pair of Syncopation (ravelry.com/patterns/library/syncopation-socks) socks that set Jeny Staiman on a path towards Polar Arc (ravelry.com/patterns/library/polar-arc-top-down).
2023: Weekend Shorties (ravelry.com/patterns/library/weekend-shorty-so…), and Pan (ravelry.com/patterns/library/pan-8).
2024 Plans: Weekend Shorties (ravelry.com/patterns/library/pan-8)redux, Footprint (ravelry.com/patterns/library/footprint-2), Zabava (ravelry.com/patterns/library/zabava-2), plus August Argyle's (ravelry.com/patterns/library/august-argyles), once I have learned intarsia in the round. I have tons of sock leftovers (courtesy of my KBFF) and I'm having a blast playing with all the colours.
Read more about Gradual Stiffening, pattern 207 in A Pattern Language, by Chris Alexander, here (iwritewordsgood.com/apl/patterns/apl208.htm).
Music in this podcast: Merrigan's Reel, by Jim Fidler; and I'm Back! (musicbed.com/songs/im-back/45493)by Royal Deluxe.

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