Shade your eyes!  These are bright.  These socks are made of Cherry Tree Hill's Wild Cherry Supersock Merino.  I used  Denise Powell's Cybersocks pattern again.  I liked it so much when I did the Bumpy Roads socks, that I decided to try it again.  I wanted to use a toe up sock pattern as I wasn't sure I was going to have enough yarn for a pair of adult socks, but they worked out fine.  I actually had some yarn left over.
	I used Denise's little twist stitch for the pattern on the ribs.  I did stop part of the way up and do just regular k2, p2 ribbing for a while and then went back to the little twist stitch.  I have to say, I really enjoyed working with this yarn.  It's a beautiful thing to work with, and the patterning of the colors kept me interested the whole way through.  The more these socks are washed, the softer they feel.  These socks continue to be as much a delight to wear as they were to make.
	These are some socks I made for John.  They're from a yarn called Hot Socks (wool and nylon).  I wasn't very happy with the pattern they make as part of the time it looks random, and part of the time there's a definite dark multi-colored stripe in it.  These are plain stockinette except for the heels, which are in the heel stitch, and the ribbing, which is k2, p2.  I made the tops of these a little longer than his purple and gray Regia socks to see if he'd like them better. I had to use one ball from the inside and one from the outside of the ball in order to get the patterning to be the same.  However, I think it was wasted effort.  I couldn't see much similarity in the socks no matter what I did.   These socks are much softer after washing, and they are turning out to be quite nice.
	This is a pair of slouch socks I made from Regia 4 Color.  I wanted to make them toe up, so the Slouch Socks pattern in Socks, Socks, Socks wouldn't work.  I did like that pattern's combination of knits and purls that made the fabric wrinkle, though.  So I used Denise Powell's toe up sock pattern and elaborated on it a little.  After the toe was knitted, I began the slouch pattern over the foot.  These actually have longer tops on them than my Wild Cherry socks do, but the design of the tops compresses them to make them slouch.
	When I got to the heel, I did the Eye of Partridge stitch with some purl trim on the sides of the heel, and then I finished off with more of the slouch sock pattern.  For the ribbing, I used k3, p3 because the slouch sock pattern was made up of that combination.  I'm very pleased with the way these socks slouch around the ankle and yet spread out over the foot so that the foot is comfortable in shoes.  These didn't quite take two skeins of yarn.  I used size 2 needles.
	Many years ago, I made myself a sweater out of Phildar's Discretion.  I had a couple of skeins of yarn left over from that, so I recently made myself a pair of socks from it.  Discretion is acrylic and wool, and I used nylon to reinforce  them.  These are toe-up socks.  I used Elizabeth Zimmerman's sewn cast off for the cuff which is 2X2 rib.  I used a mélange of patterns for the sock itself.  As with all my socks these days, I make two socks at the same time on two circular needles.
	This is a closeup of the Eye of Partridge heel.  As you can see, the Angel's Rest pattern from Fiber Trends works well on a toe-up sock.  You can see the color of the yarn better here.  The primary color is light cream with the various shades of contrasting yarn from palest pink to hot pink.  I think these will be fun to wear.

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