January 23, 2003
In Progress: The Proust Boots
last march, i began reading marcel proust's "in search of lost time". in september, i finished. it was one of the greatest experiences of my life, and i wanted to commemorate it.
these slippersocks are my homage to proust. oh, sure, i THOUGHT about putting a madeleine on them! even tried to do a chart for one. but then i decided to go with something a little further into the text. this pattern, an anna zilboorg turkish sock pattern, is called "young man's mustache" -- which in and of itself reminds me of marcel. but the colors here (the two greens and the very pale pink "buds") are representative of proust's beloved hawthorne bushes.
these are in manos. i am thinking of felting them when i am finished.