These are his and hers socks, complete with matching contrasting toe on one sock! The yarn for both of these socks is a ‘fingering’ weight, but his (the green ones) is much thicker, and the combination of thicker yarn and bigger feet meant that I ran out. But I’d already sewn up the toe on the first sock, and I really didn’t want to have to rip out the toe just to redo it in blue so that the two socks matched, so he got one sock with a green toe and one sock with a blue toe. He didn’t seem fully convinced (the asymmetry apparently bothers him more than the toe being a different color), so I promised that when I finished the matching pair I made for myself, I’d put a green toe on the second sock.
The pattern is one I made up, but I’m planning on writing it up, because I’m very happy with how it turned out. I did decreases down the leg, though they’re probably not necessary given that the cables act like ribbing, so I’m planning on writing up the pattern both with and without the decreases. I need to come up with a good name for it though. Since these two pairs were knit in different weight yarns, I actually used the same number of pattern repeats overall, and the same number of stitches, even though his foot/leg are about 1” bigger around than mine. Gauge does make a difference, as much as I’d like to ignore it…
The thicker fingering (mainly green socks) is Forbidden Fiber Co’s Gluttony sock base, colorway Central Park. The sparkly fingering (mainly blue socks, and thinner than the green) is Forbiddn Fiber Co’s pride base, in colorway Frozen. Both yarns were a joy to work with. The gluttony base is super squishy, and I really like teh subtle sparkly of the pride base.