As you can see this has absolutely nothing to do with the Olympics (Australia's colours are green and gold) but is about socks and accordions. The accordion in the picture is a rather elderly small sized Serenelli from Italy with gold-flecked keys. It's in rather poor taste but who could resist a gold accordion? The socks tone it down just a little.
I had the idea for these at the same time as the Frivolitee socks. They're quite different because they're worked in a couple of slip stitch patterns and are full of texture and depth. The patterning is a bit hard to see in the sun. It might be clearer in this photo:
They can be made without the top frill but that wouldn't be quite so much fun to do.
I've admired the Bohus designs for a while but I know that they are complex to work. I like the way these have a Bohus look with hardly any effort at all - only one colour for each row. The main colour, Maury, is the same that I used for this jumper so I knew how lovely it is -
Back to the socks now. They are available as a kit from
Renaissance Dyeing and they're called Impudence. Just the thing for cool nights in the gypsy caravan.
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