I must admit that I'm not fond of argyle or tights
(I brought both in by request)
so I had no plans for wearing these til I was filling an order earlier & realized they didn't look like I imagined them from the supplier's picture. What I'd thought was grey was actually flesh showing through as these tights are all black, I was intrigued and went on to plan my day's outfit around them which was perfect since I was filling in at the bookstore this morning (this is their desk, special thanks to Brigid for taking this shot, I was off the clock & she was on lunch). I added my grey 36 inch long socks for warmth & sockie comfort...
By the end of the day I actually started liking tights!

The Argyle page is up...
we have two knee highs from Ozone, four otks from Alpal & argyle tights from Music Legs.
I've been wearing my argyle otks all day. Once again they pulled right up to my thighs, but I didn't wear garters with them so they slipped down closer to my knees ny the end of the day, never falling below them. Actually they stayed midthigh through grocery shopping & driving so they can just be pulled back up pretty easily when needed.
It's late, I'm sleepy & I have homemade chocolate cherry cupcakes for my bedtime snack...

I will never tire of my royal blue bootsocks
on chilly mornings they are as yummie as hot coffee or tea
on warm afternoons they breathe & stay comfy
on breezy evenings they are warm & reassuring
they're even great in bed
...for sleeping in, I mean:)

Thanks Kxxx!!!
I feel truly blessed to have such wonderful people wearing our socks & sharing their joy!
...you might've noticed that although I usually use green to distiguish the words of others from my own I used pink today. That's because I also use green for links and I thought it best to switch. The one problem with pink is that if it's a man I'm quoting it may not be appropriate, perhaps I should use white?

Green, another color that can be tricky to display...
Above are the green & black cotton stripes which stay up really well.
Below are the new green & black nylon stripes which are actually darker & less shiney than they appear here and go up (and stay up) nice & high like the other new nylon stripes.
We're almost out of the half socks so I ordered more plus some new stuff: trouser socks with leopard spots, bricks & camouflage and rainbow leg warmers (should arrive next week) also some new cable knit leg warmers & rainbow toesocks that are back ordered (due in October).
I hope you aren't getting as many viruses sent to you today as I am...
Fortunately my anti virus protection is deleting them all immediately, I keep running scans to make sure though. The worst part is that these viruses have a way of hijacking people's email addresses, usually it's businesses (like ours) that get used, they then send the virus to other people using my address as the "sender" even though my system is clean and these messages are not originating from my system. The reason I know this is happening is that I have had several responses from blocked viruses today. Again, I want to stress that I am not sending viruses out & am actively protecting my system. Also, I never send messages with attachments unless requested so please be careful what you open, even if it's from a name you trust.

as much as I hate to post another picture of something we don't actually sell here, these are what I'm wearing today & I don't have anything more interesting to feature, so here they are, the toesocks that changed my mind about toesocks. I'm wearing them because they were the handiest pair last night when I put lotion on (I try to keep clean socks within easy reach where I might need them). The toesocks we sell now are actually better than these, especially the all there toesocks because they hug each toe perfectly (even my tiny little curled pinky toes). The other toesocks we sell are wonderful & comfy too, some of them are even fuzzy, but the black & white striped ones we just got came from a "bad batch", they formed holes at the beginning of each stripe after some wearing & washing (the red & white stripes seem to be okay though). Luckily we'd only sold one pair and it was returned this weekend so I was able to send them all back this morning. Better luck next time. At least it was a US supplier so returning them was easy.

I haven't been dyeing these past couple of weekends because I was out of fixative and hadn't gotten around to getting more yet. This week I was asked about orange leg warmers so I got myself some soda ash & did a test batch using my new pressure cooker and two pairs each of leg warmers & socks, two styles each. The two that went under pressure with the fixative were total losses (sweater socks & sweater leg warmers). I have no way of knowing exactly what happened between sealing & reopening that pot, but the results were not pretty, they came out looking more like corroded pennies than bright sunny socks:( they were coming out so nicely before that too), I suspect that sodium carbonate & aluminum don't play well together under pressurized heat, though nothing I've read in the past week indicated it would be a problem.
..and the winners, orange sherbet longsocks (that will be redyed later for more intensity), and some nice yellow/orange cotton legwarmers (overdyed from last months' marigold batch)