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Sancho Proudfoot

Sancho is a mischievous little hobbit who refers to himself as Dread Highwayman Sancho Proudfoot. He was caught searching for Bilbo’s treasure and Frodo spends a lot of time getting him out of trouble. His socks need to be sturdy but ready for any sort of adventure. The sock is worked toe-up with a gusseted …

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Danse des Dragée

Sugar Plum Dance Hat and Cowl Every year at holiday time, I make it a point to watch The Nutcracker. The parade of sweets is my favorite part, culminating in La Danse de la Fée- Dragée (the Dance of the Sugar Plum Fairy). Dragées are a hard-shelled sweet filled with spices, nuts, or seeds, often …

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Ribbon Candy

Those brightly colored, little twists of sugar appear every year around the holidays as if by magic. Part decoration and part sweet treat, it just doesn’t seem like Christmas without them. These socks are inspired by that fun holiday confection. The sock is worked toe-up with contrast toe, heels, and cuff. The leg is worked …

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Pan-dimensional Surfboard

Everyone imagines being able to time travel but since we don’t have a clever blue box, what can we do? We can build our own pan-dimensional surfboard and ride the waves of the time vortex! Don’t have a handy nuclear power plant to fuel your surfboard or the alien tech to build one in the …

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Southern Exposure shawl

Southern Exposure

This design began with Countess Ablaze’s lemons to lemonade story about the distorted idea some businesses have about the value of unpaid “exposure,” bless their hearts. When I saw that she was inviting dyers and designers to create with her iconic If I Want Exposure, I’ll Get My Tits Out colorway, all to benefit charity, …

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