Garbage Pail Kids Socks
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Garbage Pail Kids Socks
aka the socks of life-sucking
These socks were commissioned by a friend and took me about a month to make from design phase to finish. Hand-knit knee-high socks for size 11 1/2 male, with duplicate stitched design. The guy's name is Jian (pronounced Ian) and his favorite GPK growing up was Alien Ian, hence the way it's spelled on the socks.
I had to do some dumbing down of the design and color palette to make it feasible.
Luckily he loved them, or I would have punched him in the face after all the work I put into these
Enjoy!
Front
Left Side
Right Side
And in case you're unfamiliar with that particular Kid and want to see what I had to work with:
These socks were commissioned by a friend and took me about a month to make from design phase to finish. Hand-knit knee-high socks for size 11 1/2 male, with duplicate stitched design. The guy's name is Jian (pronounced Ian) and his favorite GPK growing up was Alien Ian, hence the way it's spelled on the socks.
I had to do some dumbing down of the design and color palette to make it feasible.
Luckily he loved them, or I would have punched him in the face after all the work I put into these
Enjoy!
Front
Left Side
Right Side
And in case you're unfamiliar with that particular Kid and want to see what I had to work with:
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That's some pretty fine knitwork right there lady. Your skills know no bounds. AMAZING!
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Yup, knit in the round on 4 double-pointed needles.Madii wrote:These are pretty amazing, I love the fact that you've done fully formed heels combined with a custom design. The sheer force of will required to do the counting for this must've been draining. Did you knit them in the round too? Very, very impressive.
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ThanksDreadstarMonstar wrote:That's some pretty fine knitwork right there lady. Your skills know no bounds. AMAZING!
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Loves these! You have some amazing skills there lady
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Thank you I'm glad that month of my life wasn't for naught. I may well have ended up in the Loony bin!KelsieStars wrote:Loves these! You have some amazing skills there lady
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Consider me IMPRESSED lady! You are super creative
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Totally amazing! I knew which card it was before scrolling all the way down as I'm a big GPK nerd. I'd be pleased as punch to get something like this <3
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They were commissioned as a gift by Jian's boyfriend. So when he first open the present he saw the spaceship one first and was like "A...Christmas sock...with spacesh- OH!" when he saw the Alien. Then he got really excited lol
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Re: Garbage Pail Kids Socks
Working on socks can be right buggers!
They look gorgeus. What yarns was it you used - did you stick to Red Heart?
They look gorgeus. What yarns was it you used - did you stick to Red Heart?
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I used a sport weight acrylic Hobby Lobby brand called "I Love This Yarn"NaturalistDesigns wrote:Working on socks can be right buggers!
They look gorgeus. What yarns was it you used - did you stick to Red Heart?
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Ooo. If I have an American on the swap I'm about to undertake I'll have to ask for a ball of that as wellGromidez wrote:I used a sport weight acrylic Hobby Lobby brand called "I Love This Yarn"NaturalistDesigns wrote:Working on socks can be right buggers!
They look gorgeus. What yarns was it you used - did you stick to Red Heart?
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I only just moved to a state that even has Hobby Lobby, so I was completely unaware of the phenomenon until a couple months ago. But on my first trip to the store I was found standing, mouth open, in the yarn aisle in front of the MASSIVE selection of worsted weight acrylics (the exact yarn as the Super Saver, pretty much) going "I love this yarn? What is this? Oh, it's the Hobby Lobby brand... Oh. Oh my god. Its. so. soft.... I LOVE THIS YARN, TOO!"NaturalistDesigns wrote:Ooo. If I have an American on the swap I'm about to undertake I'll have to ask for a ball of that as wellGromidez wrote:I used a sport weight acrylic Hobby Lobby brand called "I Love This Yarn"NaturalistDesigns wrote:Working on socks can be right buggers!
They look gorgeus. What yarns was it you used - did you stick to Red Heart?
It is, however, slightly more expensive. So while the Super Saver is roughly $2.80 a skein, the ILTY brand is $4 for (I think) a little less yardage. Also, unlike SS, the ILTY has dye lots. Despite this, I am still considering a change over to ILTY for my product because I think it will give added appeal to my plushies and wearables while still being less expensive than wool/cotton/etc.
http://shop.hobbylobby.com/needlework/y ... this-yarn/
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absolutely freaking awesome
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