I'm calling these my Yosemite socks since I knit basically all of the second sock on the way to and from our recent quick trip to Yosemite (not to mention in Yosemite). Plus as Lawson points out it sounds bit like Yosemite Sam and that is fun too. Yosemite was beautiful!
The yarn is Stroll Handpainted from Knitpicks in the Make Believe colorway. I was happy with how the yarn striped and the colors. I have another pair of socks I made with Essential (the old name for Stroll) and I find that it feels a bit artificial as it wears and not that soft, but it is certainly durable. I'll have to see how these socks do...
I used my favorite More Sensational Knitted Socks as a general guide for the pattern and I tried the round toe which I have never done before. I was pretty happy with how it turned out - I think it shows off the stripes nicely - and I appreciated not having to do any grafting at the end (which I really don't mind too much, but it did save some time).
Here is the next pair of socks I am working on - made with really subtle, pretty yarn from Spunky Eclectic using the dragonfly socks pattern. A lot of the socks I have knit myself have been in really bright fun colors so this is a nice change and I think that I will really enjoy wearing these - they feel a bit more classy. These are also my first lace socks (or really, socks with any pattern significantly more complicated than a rib), and it has gone really well! Socks are often my mindless project that I pick up for a few minutes here and there, so I was worried that I would lose track of the pattern but it hasn't been an issue really, the pattern was quite easy to learn. I made a few mods including replacing all the sl1 k1 psso's with ssk's, which I find much easier to work, but mostly the pattern has been great.
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