Simple Soothing Socks for WiP Wednesday

I have a lot of projects lingering on the needles for various reasons, which isn't really a common occurrence for me.  But since I often want knitting to be relaxing, I started a simpler, more mindless project to work on in between dedicated efforts to deal with the trickier things.  So for the first time in a very long time, I'm working on simple stockinette socks - with a twist.

Peek-a-boo, it's a picot hem cuff!

I was intrigued by the round toe, afterthought heel, and double knit picot hem of Turtlegirl's Let it Be socks.  It seemed like a great pattern to showcase variegated yarn that had a lot to say on its own and I had yarn that wanted to do just that.


My Ixia yarn from Creatively Dyed Yarn (purchased at Stitches Midwest 2009) worked really well in stockinette for a charity hat.  I really liked how bright and cheery it was (both in the skein and when knit into a hat) and how well the colors played together without great globs of shocking pooling.  And with 510 yards to the skein I had more than enough left over for a pair of socks.

So now I have one very strange looking almost-sock.  There's a line of waste yarn where the heel will go, but I decided to wait until both socks reach this stage to work the heels, just in case I don't have quite enough yarn and need some sort of contrasting heel instead.

Someday I'll sprout a heel and grow up to be a real sock

Of course I've been sucked into the much needed, happy, therapeutic sock knitting and haven't really been devoting time to those other projects since I cast on for these.  Oops!