Those of you who are paying attention will remember today’s project from this (slightly upsetting) post (scroll past the choctopuses – I promise you it’s upsetting) and this (more optimistic) one.

It’s been surprisingly easy to plough through on the train, once I’d memorised the pattern and it went super-fast. I (re) started this pair on 17th May (yes, a little over 2 weeks ago) and if I hadn’t been so determined to knit “sea & shore” at the shore (that’s my next blog post, promise) would have finished them within the same month, which I don’t think has ever happened before. Let’s all remember I’m no Steph Pearl McPhee.

So, it is with great joy, and HURRAH! that I give you finished Heritage Sox.

…so named because the little crosses look like fleur-de-lys (but upside down. *if only* I’d knitted them top-down, eh??!?).

Using a combo of my brain, Shelly Kang’s toe-up sock pattern (mainly for the short row heel) and Rautenmustersocken, I used some more of the apparently never ending NZ wool my aunt gave me, and some ebay-sourced probably-plastic cream yarn.

I knitted the colourwork inside out to get good tension, which seems to have worked well – the colourwork is pleasingly flat.

So why, I know you’re all asking, the “Harumph”? Well, it turns out, that when you knit a sock inside out, it’s only when you’ve finished it and sewn all the ends in that you notice things like this.

I’m going to call it “a feature”. I like to think that without it, you would never know that they were hand made.