Two pairs of bee socks, for two different friends. One really likes bees, and the other just studied them for years and wrote a dissertation on them… These socks may look familiar, and that’s because I did a very similar pair just over a year ago, but those had four bees dancing their way around the top, while these pairs only have two bees per sock. I still haven’t mastered perfect colorwork, so I decided that duplicate stitch would give me a more even and stretchy fabric. Turns out though that eight bees is a fair amount of duplicate stitched bees! It was a bit tricky in that the yellow is a finer yarn than the black, so while the black bees on a yellow background works perfectly, I found I had to double my yellow yarn when stitching onto the black background.
Other than the duplicate stitched bees, these are fairly standard socks, with nothing particularly fancy. I really like these two colors for bees-the dark grey is a Knitpicks Muse, which works well since it isn’t a solid color, and has some variegation. The golden yellow color is called spicy caramel from ND yarn company, and is exactly the shade I wanted for these!