After much struggling for motivation, finally I have completed my "Loch Ness Fog" socks! Both the color, combined with the fact that I have been re-listening to the audio books of Diana Gabaldon's Outlander series... have gotten me thinking about Scotland. (The series is awesome, and the reader for the audio books is superb! I get lost in the story and realize I've stopped knitting to listen!)
The socks have turned out as planned... though the texture is a little busy I think. I am glad I decided to use a mostly solid color for these, because I think I would have really disliked any extra distraction from the color.
The yarn here is Knit Picks Kettle Dyed Stroll in "spruce", and as always this yarn was a pleasure to work with. The completed socks are soft, warm and comfortable.
Seeing as how this was my first pair of 2-at-a-time socks... I am pretty pleased with the new skills I've learned. After some coaching from the other members of Team Canada I decided to go for broke and try and turn both heels at the same time on the same circular needle. The process was a little fiddly, but mostly painless, so I am glad I decided to try it out. I think it would have been way worse to try and shift the socks to different needles and then shift back again. I will definitely try this technique again sometime. I think it will be perfect for simple ribbing or stockinette socks... much faster than trying to do one and then remember exactly what I did to complete the second one. I really liked that aspect, not having to write down the details so I can remember them for the second sock.