Here's what I've got so far:
All are from generic sock ideas in my head, aided by Wendy's Socks from the Toe Up, where I learned Judy's Magic Caston and the short row heel.
The blue ones are 2 x 2 rib cuffs, top down, Dream in Color Starry, a color called Midnight DerbyVF480, so old that they may not make it any more. Love the glints from the silver fiber.
The red ones are some anonymous ball that had started out to be a pair of gloves, but I frogged them and made my first pair of toe-up socks with short-row heels.
Then I started toe-up on the gold-black-and-white ones, Opal 187 (probably no longer produced) which in the ball seemed like they would look leopardy. They didn't, but I got a brainstorm about making them match by knitting the second one top-down, so I could start at the same place in the color repeat on #2 where the top of #1 had ended. It sort of worked, at least for the part that will show above the shoe. Then things started to drift, so that the toes are very different, but, still, it was a fun experiment. Oh yeah, and I threw in a few beads at the tops just because I had them and thought they would look cool. They do, don't they?
The pair still in progress are Blue Moon Fibers Socks That Rock Lightweight, in Sweet Pea. Top down with a crazy mess o' beads mingled in with some cables. The color looks like cream until you big the picture up, at which point they look a little dirty. In person they look stained with a bit of pea soup. It has been interesting knitting these, because I can only see the color in natural daylight, so it's always a surprise to see what last night's knitting looks like after the sun comes up. I'm not at all a fan of this colorway and am very glad to be distracted by the shiny beads.
This is so satisfying and so much fun that it may be hard to get back to making Big Stuff!
