Woo hoo! I finished my first pair of socks for myself using Regia 5042. They are definitely fraternal, but with this yarn, it is easier to identify that the yarn is the same than the pattern is different.

Of course, the real test of a good pair of socks is how they look on the right pair of feet:

After I took the picture I just couldn't take them off. They feel so soft and nice on the inside -- nicer even than I thought they would. I bet you can all guess which pair of socks I will be wearing tomorrow! I like the way they go with my jeans -- the blue comes out very well with them. I think I am definitely going to have to go in search of some more of this pattern in a different colorway... maybe 5047 and 5048.

Now I have to decide which socks to cast on next... the names next to the Koigu are my made up names to give some description to the colorway. I am currently leaning towards the Koigu, just because I really haven't knit much with it yet. Opinions anyone?

• Grey Opal (for John)
  
• Koigu PPPM p514 "John Deere" (for Dad)
  
• Koigu PPPM p201 "Chocolate, Raspberry, Blueberry, Vanilla Sundae" (for Mom)
  
• Koigu PPPM p500 "Ripe Vine Tomatoes" (for me, in Crusoe pattern)
  
• Brown/Grey/Black/White Jacquard Regia (for John?)
  
• Black Colored Stripes Regia (for me)
  

I'll close my post tonight with a picture of my Beezle-Weasel doing what I should really do very soon (although not in a shoebox) since I have a big day ahead of me tomorrow learning how to make stitch markers with Julie. He looks so cute you might forget for a moment that he is a bamboo knitting needle terrorist who will actually drag them out of mostly sealed containers.