For those who don't know, Tofutsies is a sock yarn that is a blend of wool, soy fiber, cotton and chitin. The tag has a little picture of a crab, saying "chitin is fiber from crab and shrimp shells" and stating it as "naturally antibacterial". Anyone who remembers high school biology, or especially, high school biology with Mrs. Catron, remembers the vague feeling of disgust when learning or realizing that crabs are basically giant spiders living in the ocean. So, if you did not know that, think about it next time at the casino buffet when you are gobbling down the meaty legs of monster sea spiders. Yum!
I thought I'd show an update of the Tofutsies socks:
I just started decreasing the gusset last night while watching "Maverick". Funny movie, btw. Here is my foot modeling the sock, and my knitting assistant, Ginger, trying to clean her teeth with the knitting needle:
And one more picture, this one having nothing to do with knitting. We went hiking yesterday, and this is the view from the foothillls:
I really do love living in a place where hiking like this is, quite literally, in your backyard.
2 comments:
It's good to have you back, Nancy! I like keeping up with your projects. And while I don't remember the Chitin in Mrs. Catron's biology class, I do remember the time she dressed up as a virus for Halloween. And the time her son, whose name I won't mention here, peed in a cup so we could test the PH and we were all horrified.
Sprinkle me with chitin! You land-locked land-lubbers can never scare me away from my beloved sea-spiders - er, shellfish.
Nice tofutsies, by the way.
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