One of the lovely things about the new job/move is that we are now about a 1.5 hr drive from a large chunk of my family, so that when they have monthly get togethers to celebrate birthdays, we can now go. This does mean coming up with suitable birthday presents for people, though. This particular pair of socks is a present for a cousin, but since I fail at planning ahead, he got to unwrap a ball of yarn instead of a finished pair of socks. It did allow me to check in on desired yarn color and size first, so I suppose that was a win?
It’s been awhile since I last knit a pair of socks from this pattern, and I’d forgotten how much I like it. I find something really satisfying in how the cables decrease down to a point, and I feel they’re a great manly sock pattern. I made this pair out of some Knitpicks Hawthorne sock yarn I had sitting around, and I made the cuff so long I had to dig back through my stash to find the second skein! Happily I did find it and was able to finish the socks. Now we just get to wait to the next family get together to deliver them!