Another entry for Knitdown 2010: Jeeves, a knitted sock for gentlemen.
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Eagle-eyed sorts will notice that Jeeves look awfully familiar. I modified the original pattern for a DK weight yarn and cranked out a pair in a gorgeous blue silk blend for my father-in-law’s birthday. The name Jeeves came after my mother gave me metric ton of her Wodehouse and I was reminded how Jeeves came into Bertie’s employ:
“I had found Meadowes, the fellow I had taken to Easeby with me, sneaking my silk socks, a thing no bloke of spirit could stick at any price … I was reluctantly compelled to hand the misguided blighter the mitten and go to London to ask the registry office to dig up another specimen for my approval. They sent me Jeeves.”
So they did.
April 4th, 2010 at 8:25 pm
Just to point out a typo on the pattern – on the first page, it reads “a knited sock”. Bertie is more than capable of that error, but Jeeves? I doubt it.
April 4th, 2010 at 11:47 pm
A very handy sock for the discerning gentleman and Management Indoors has given it his total approval. He wishes me to convey his appreciation to you for the freebiness of it and would like to know where you manage to find your staff as he has considerable problems with his current housekeeper!
April 5th, 2010 at 5:47 am
Rum!
Bertie thought he could handle the responsibility. Of course he’d bung it up.
April 5th, 2010 at 5:47 am
Thank you, Sir.