"Hooking Up"

I saw my mom over the weekend. She was bemused that we were all making argyles. I told her that her socks were much admired and now, famously, posted on the web. I asked her if she'd made any other argyle socks or if the two pairs I had were it. She couldn't remember exactly, but said that she supposed she knit a pair for every guy she was "going with." For her, that must've been a lot of socks. If all these coeds from the '50s were crocheting instead, we could call it a version of the "hooking up" culture. . .(WW)