This was a project I improvised for the Jane Austen Book Club knit-along on Ravelry. We were in the middle of Sense and Sensibility, and I thought of the scene in the 1995 Emma Thompson movie, where the sisters and their mother move into Barton cottage, and on the first chilly night, Marianne and Elinor share a bedroom. Elinor gets into bed where Marianne is already curled up, and Marianne whines, “Your feet are cold.” Elinor gets up again and struggles into a pair of woolly socks. So these are lacy but warm bed socks for Elinor’s cold feet.