Pair 23 - Bex

This is pair 14/15 of the Sock Innovations sub-project.

It was a challenging pair to knit as it was another heavily cabled pattern a bit like Kristi ( Pair 19) Once I got going and finally memorised the various different cables going in all directions they grew quite quickly.
They were fun to knit, although seemed to take an age to start progressing.
The yarn I purchased from another knitting Fetch user - Velociraptor who was destashing. The yarn is a colourway called Palomino and by Wollmeise.
the yarn had a high twist and kept re-twisting and tangling slightly.

The socks had originally been started in O Tannebaum but the yarn was too busy for the pattern and ended up as Pair 20- Vanilla instead.

I only have one more pair to knit to complete Sock Innovations.

Started 19 April 2013
Finished 20 June 2013

Yarn used Wollmeise - Palomino

Pair 22 Dragonfly

This pair is one of my favourites.
The pattern can be found here
I started this pair as another alternative to the complex Bex ones which are still in progress at the time of writing this entry.

I also arranged to do them as a mini KAL with a Ravelry/Knitting Friend Leesa.

I was drawn to the pattern because of the name and the design.  When my son, Stirling passed away in 2005 we had the story of the Waterbugs and Dragonflies at his funeral and afterwards several friends kept spotting dragonflies in unusual places.  As a result the dragonfly became a sort of symbol for Stirling, so it would have been rude not to knit this pair of socks, especially as we approach his anniversary this week (6 June)

I set a target of that date to complete them and managed it with a week to spare.

The yarn is Flamboyance Pharos in the Circus Circus colourway, I don't often buy pastels, but thought it looked pretty and the pattern and yarn were a perfect match.

The pattern was pretty straightforward.  There is a discrepancy with the heel turn figures, I ended up with 18 sts after working all sts in the heel turn.

I particularly like how the yarn pooled to create 2 completely different socks and would definitely knit is pattern again.

Started 1 May 2013
Finished 29 May 2013