St Pat's socks, times two

I finally finished both pairs of the St Pat's socks for me and the DH, and I think they turned out quite nicely! I wanted to finish them for St. Pat's day, but naturally it was too hot to wear them. LOL Last year it was cold and rainy, this year I think it was about 70. "Can't win for losing," as my mother has been known to say. :D

Mine are the ones from the FlatFeet yarn, and I think they turned out very pretty. I used a mock cable pattern for the cuff/leg and then just plain stockinette stitch for the ankle and foot. I seem to always do a short row heel because I can do them w/o thinking. I didn't have much of the yarn left, maybe enough to do a couple of coffee cup cozies or something. I'm stashing my leftover sock yarn and might do some monster socks at some point. The third photo is just a closeup of the stitch pattern. Very easy pattern-looks much harder than it is.

The DH's were done with Wildfoote "Desert grass" and I don't think I really like that yarn. It's pretty splitty, so it was a bit of a pain. They are pretty though, and he likes them, and is already wondering when he'll get the next pair. I didn't have much left over. For some reason, I bought three skeins, and I'm not sure why. I could probably make a short pair for myself out of what's left.

Flatfeet socks

I've been enjoying the Flatfeet yarn "flats" or whatever they are called! They are machine knit "blanks" then died two at a time. You can two similar/sort of identical flats sewn together and that is enough to make a pair of socks. You just unravel as you knit. It's a bit disconcerting at first because it's so wavy, but it all works out in the end.

I am doing simple pattern stitches for both the pink and green. Both are from the flat of the month club at Heartstone-the pink for Valentine's day and the green for St Pat's. I have been working on the pink for a couple of weeks, but I put aside the pink so I can finish the green ones for St Pat's! I find it incredibly easy to do them both at once.

The pink pattern stitch is one I have no idea where it came from. I do know I sort of worked it out on graph paper. I'm not claiming it as my own, but I don't know what it's called or who originated it. Every two rows are knit all the way around, the other two rows alternate K2, P2 to make the basket weave pattern.

The green pattern stitch is the same mock/baby/one stitch cable pattern from the fingerless gloves pattern a few posts back.

Both socks are done on 1's, CO 68 st. The pink pattern seems a bit tighter than the green cable rib-just for future reference, I might CO 72 if using the cable pattern.