#gay ass socks

[fossilknits]

gay ass socks (part 4)

hello hello! someone reblogged my last post about these socks earlier and it reminded me to post an update! (thank you to anyone who reads these by the way i appreciate it!!!)

happy to say that the calf increases worked out very well! my measurements were right on, and the stripes are looking a lot better this time around. i'm also past the point i was at before frogging, it's nice to keep making progress now!

you can't see in this photo but the yarn is just starting to transition from this coral-y shade into the true pink, it'll probably be obvious within the next few stripes! i'm gonna keep going with these until they're over my knee before i start the brioche tops, and that'll probably take a little while, but they're getting there!

not sure yet if i want to decrease back down under the knee, but i'll keep them as they are for now. as long as they're not too loose they should be ok

thanks for reading!

[momomallowart]

Human curling iron + gamer who doesn't stop yapping ʕ⁠ ⁠ꈍ⁠ᴥ⁠ꈍ⁠ʔ

Here's a version without the text + a closeup too 🫶💗

[cazionfhey]

happy mew year! 🐈‍⬛💕

[hallowclave]

Small but knowing wxs

[fossilknits]

gay ass socks (part 1)

hey there! first post on this blog! i thought it might be nice to have a more casual place to share my projects (i used to maintain an instagram for this, but who has that kind of time, right?)

so, anyways. The Socks.

i knit these suckers back in, like, spring 2022? something like that? they were a shockingly fun project for something so big and repetitive, but unfortunately back then i was a terribly tight knitter (i'm still prone to gauge issues, but at least i know how to deal with it now) and they came out way too small to ever be wearable. they've been shamefully shoved in the bottom of my forgotten projects bin since then

but damn do i love the idea of these socks and i still badly went to wear them! so i'm finally frogging them and starting over

i did most of the frogging the other night while rewatching alien (1979), then last night i reskeined them-

-which looks pleasantly like ramen noodles, and then dunked them in some cold water and straightened out the fibers. they're hanging up to dry now but i bet i'll be able to rewind them tonight and maybe cast on the toes!

i'm going to redo these in a slightly different pattern - this time i'll try out "Brioche Topped Thigh High Socks" by Lavanya Patricella, because i've been in a brioche mood lately, and i want to try and use up every scrap of the yarn to get these socks as long as possible!

also i need a nice easy project to bring to lectures, and my other project (big cabled cardigan) is not working out for that

anyways, thanks for reading and i can't wait to show more of this project!

[loadednachosao3]

AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA Raymond shook my hand and said "that's a funny shirt" in the most deadpan-ass Tuco voice ever then told me he'd sign it for free I'M A TUCO SALAMANCA GROUPIE LET'S GO GIRLS

[blood-ology]

I'm only 3/4 of the way through it, but so far it's amazingly, wonderfully insane that Victor/Victoria has aged sooo beautifully as an lgbt+ movie? Like oh my godddd there are so many things that I'm losing my shit over here (contains spoilers !) :

Victoria coming out of Toddy's closet wearing that one guy's clothes and then clocking and kicking his ass

Them addressing certain straight men's fear and insecurity around being attracted to drag queens (and inadvertently, trans women)- and the insecurity in their masculinity/the need to prove that they're (straight/masculine/cis) men

Norma having it revealed to her that Victoria's a man and immediately jumping into saying "well, a woman can always tell- no matter hormone shots, etc. there's some things that can't be hidden" (she's literally flat out making shit up cuz that aint the case lmfaoo) I love how in the context of now this feels like they're actively dunking on transphobes

Toddy saying "You know, I think the right woman could reform you, too." right back at Norma when she says it to him

Toddy and Victoria's relationship <33

It's a low asf bar now but an insanely high bar for the time: no transphobic slurs or comments so far???!! Even media from the 2000s often fail this test

Victoria absolutely owning King Marchand every time he's homophobic or obvious about his fragile masculinity :)

Deliberate misgendering framed negatively in a context without trans people or transphobic implications... idk I just think it's neat

Being chill about str8 drag lets fucking go

Textual proof that Julie Andrews is a gay icon and also SO fucking hot in drag

Gay man + straight woman friendship/solidarity in a way that isn't annoying or too stereotypical

The way that Victoria's relationship with both Toddy and King Marchand almost comes off as homoerotic cuz of the drag (wrote this before I got to the part where they were perceived as a gay couple lol)

Honestly you could give Victoria almost any gender/sexuality and this movie would still be a massive slay

"I don't care if you are a man" *kisses her* "I'm not a man" "I still don't care" *they kiss again*

Victoria clocking that one guy multiple times

People thinking King Marchand is gay ("so there was this polish fairy..." and "if a guy like you has the guts to admit he's gay... so can I")

"I said you can stop pretending" "I don't think I want to"

"You know a lot of guys, you'd be surprised [how many of them are gay]."

The convo about men and women not having any particular gendered way of acting, and some women having adams apples ILY <3

That asshole who's trying spy on Victoria getting his umbrella absolutely nuked by the lightning lmaoo

[jaegerisim]

I'm writing the most common headcanons. If you have your own tell me in the tags! Reblogs are appreciated 👍

[bubzterr]

get u a man who’s invulnerable to gunfire and is not afraid to rob banks with u (shared hobby)

[fossilknits]

gay ass socks (part 3)

still working away at these badboys! last week was pretty rough so i haven't gotten very far on these (read: i didn't go to any of my lectures and that's mostly where i work on these) but i'm back on track now, hopefully

i knit alllll this...

....and then frogged back to the arrow. whoops. i wasn't sure if i wanted to add calf increases, so i soldiered on without them, but i ended up hating how the stretching made the stripes look narrower, so i'm adding increases this time! did some rough math and i should need about 20 increases spread across 20 stripes, so i'm doing two increases per white stripe

look how tidy they are! and i love the coral sort of color that i'm getting into

next update will hopefully be about how perfectly it fits on my calf this time

thanks for reading!

[sneakerdude-finland]

[poltergeist-punk]

He’s so stupid I would kill for him

@tanglelover thanks for the meme shirt dad

[knoxcountry]

𝓱𝓮𝓵𝓵𝓸 𝓫𝓻𝓸❤️

my rhys pony on ponytown show him some love

[fossilknits]

gay ass socks (part 2)

a wild heel appears! and lots of pretty stripes!

these photos were taken (more or less) 24 hours apart - i've been zooming through this project and i thought it'd be interesting to see how much i was able to do!

the photo on the left was taken last night, photo on the right was taken just now. in the last day i've worked on these through six episodes of zoey's extraordinary playlist and two college lectures (although not necessarily knitting the entire time, so i can't make an accurate time estimate)

the heel was done, i think monday or tuesday night? it's a classic FLK heel, and it fits a lot better than the original version of these socks did, yay!

i'm starting to think about how i'll work calf increases into these, i've done some rough math and it looks like i'll definitely need to add like 12-16 stitches in at some point, i'm just not sure yet where or how. i have a ways to go before it's an issue though

thanks for reading!