Et Voila! Another pair of Koigu socks. I would call them fraternal twins, but I don't think they come that close. More like kissing cousins, if you ask me. The socks are based on the Crusoe pattern in last quarter's Knitty, but modified for my gauge and general style (I don't do double pointed needles if I can at all avoid them).

You'll probably notice right away that the toes are different. I did the one on the right first, thought it was a little too tight, and decided to try the original toe in the pattern on the second sock. I figured that no one really ever sees the toes anyway, and life is too short to rip out something 99.9% of people will never notice. I guess you all know my dirty little secret now -- I am not a knitting perfectionist.

The yarn for these socks is Koigu PPPM p122. Yet another Koigu colorway that looked totally different to me knitted into socks than it did when I saw it in a skein.

I'm adding this extra pic to show how the side-to-top seam area looks -- also to show that Koigu does show some regular patterning under some circumstances.
I was a little disappointed that the blue/red/pink areas and the green/orange/yellow areas sort of striped and stuck together, I was hoping they would be a little more intermixed. The other sock, had even stranger behavior (probably because my tension was looser). Almost all the green/yellow/orange areas ended up on the front of the sock while the blue/red/pink areas ended up on the back (at least for the leg portion of the sock). It almost looks like I was using two different colorways.

They are wonderful and soft and a perfect complement to a very cool spring day here in Chicago.