Sending Socks to Oregon

Brother Dave and I are both behind on our Christmas creations. Now Karen and Dave's socks are done and ready to get wrapped and mailed.

Dave is moderately tall and has long feet - size 14 shoes. I knit the cuffs eight inches long and had to add a new ball of yarn while doing the toe decreases. If I had knit the cuffs seven inches long, one skein would have been enough.

Since I bought four 50g skeins of this yarn, there's plenty left to knit a second pair of socks for someone with a normal size foot.

Pattern: Basic cuff down sock pattern on 72 stitches. k5p1 ribbing on cuff and instep.

Yarn: Regia.

Color: Kaffe Fassett 4251.

Needles: Options 2.5

Gauge: 8 stitches/inch, 10 rows/inch

These Opal Monkeys are for Karen, Dave's SO.

The yarn is a bit busy for the Monkey stitch pattern, but I had to knit some kind of interesting stitch to keep from going stockinette crazy.

The socks look nicer in real life.

Pattern: Monkey by Cookie A. in Knitty, Winter 2006.

Yarn: Opal.

Color: Smoke.

Needles: Options 2.5

Gauge: 8 stitches/inch, 10 rows/inch