The past two years I’ve had a garden plot at work. I’ve had great success there with my basil, hot peppers and marigolds, and some mixed success with other plants. This past summer my mom was kind enough to volunteer to plant my garden, since she was in town at the right time. That meant that she got to influence the plants in it, and one of the plants she picked out for me was celery. Not that I don’t like celery, I do, but I don’t eat that much of it, and home grown celery is so much more flavorful than store bought celery. I’m not sure flavor is exactly what I’m looking for when I eat celery. A source of water? A vehicle for hummus or dressing? Either way, I had way more celery this summer than I could use, so I harvested some and brought it to the local yarn store, along with my overabundance of basil and hot peppers. Turns out that the mom of one of the people there loves celery, particularly the home grown flavorful stuff, and was thrilled to be able to use all my celery for juicing. I was happy to find a good home for it, where it wouldn’t’ go to waste. As a thank-you for the celery, I received this yarn, which is why these are my celery socks.
The yarn is an opal sock yarn, and the pattern is pretty much exactly what I did for the Cornell socks, complete with the decreases down the back of the leg. They actually fit me really well, so I’m trying to decide if I want to keep them for myself after all. They aren’t really as blue as the socks I normally make for myself, so we’ll see.