Soda Pop River Socks

My latest Cookie A. sock for my "cookie jar" is in progress.

Here is my Soda Pop Moselle.

I was going to report that I wasn't loving this pattern.    

 But as I reflected on it a little, I realized it isn't so much the pattern, as it is the way I am knitting it that made me not "love" it like I have every other Cookie sock.

The lines aren't "clean".  Maybe it's my ssk's.  Maybe it is my transition from purl to knit. Whatever it is, when I gave up my quest for perfection, I relaxed and enjoyed the "flow" of the Moselle much more.

Here is the real  Moselle River.

Gorgeous.

I also discovered that Moselle is also a German wine.

I could claim to have planned the whole thing. German yarn for a pattern named after German River, also avoiding the whole blue/ green yarn color to go with a different "liquid color" but, honestly it was all a happy accident.

Yarn choice?   

Campari Orange in Wollmeise Sockenwolle.

I liked the colors when I ordered it, but felt a little unsure of them. However, I fell in love once I had the skein in my hot little hands.

Hmmm...what is Campari, I wondered? 

My Google search for a translation led me to this tasty treat.  I assumed it was German, just like my lovely yarn.  It so happened a German exchange student whom I'd never met walked through my front door, I said, like a dork..."Hey, I just looked up your soda pop." He told me it might be from Italy.  Which led to me finding the truth about Campari .

Soda Pop with alcohol? 

Certainly, if I had drank a few of these while in the early stages of my knitting these Soda Pop River socks, there would have been no stress at all.   

Comments

[Miss T]

Love those colors. And that very cool bottle.

[Amanda Cathleen]

how neat! your socks are looking preeeettty!

[Carolynn]

Wow -- I love finding little things like that! I think the socks look nice. :)

[Nell]

Campari can just be a liquor too. Yum!

[Heather]

Oh I love Campari and OJ, it's the best!

LOVE the pattern, I feel it goes very well indeed with the yarn.