The socks are made from Lorna's Laces Shepherd Sport, in the Pioneer colourway - very manly, I think. The pattern is the Tech Guy sock from MagKnits, using k3 p1 ribbing all around. On the whole this is a good pattern, although I wasn't fond of the toe - the sock is worked top-down, and then the heel is formed using backward yarn-over short-rows; you then use the same technique to make the toe, and finish the sock by kitchener-stitching the second heel to the stitches at the top of the foot. Granted, its been ages since I knit a pair of socks, and that was with very bulky yarn, but I seem to recall a different method to form the toe... something about decreasing stitches at both sides of the foot and then grafting the top and bottom together. This one works fine, but I think it looks a touch odd. I guess I'll have to experiment a bit with other patterns to see which one I like best.
for other knitting projects, you will have to tune in next week, after they have all been unwrapped!
but for now, I have a sock to knit!
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