I was so excited to play with my handspun, and here are the first set of socks! I wasn’t sure how much a pattern would show up in this yarn, given the effect that cabling multiple colors together produces. I think these diamonds (made by little 1x1 stitch cables) worked well. I was also surprised to find that I think this yarn is a thinner weight fingering than normal! I used fewer stitches than I normally use for store bought fingering, expecting the yarn to be thicker (and thus give me fewer stitches per inch), but I think I probably should have used my standard number, as the socks are snug around my ankles.
Since I have four skeins of this mix of colored and grey sock yarn, I decided to knit each sock from a different skein, since the skeins (mostly) go through the same color progression. That way the socks would have similar colors. You can see that the first sock has a bit of blue at the cuff before going into teal, while the second sock just has a really long teal stretch. After the teal though, they both go to light blue, dark blue, and then purple, although the length of each color on the two socks is different, and the second sock goes into the pink after the purple. Even though the colors don’t match perfectly, I’m really happy with the overall effect and honestly that the colors match this much is a bit of a bonus!