Sock Machine

I've finished not one, but TWO pairs of socks in the month of March! Don't ask me how I accomplished that, because I have no idea!

First is a pair of Vanilla Bean socks with Must Stash yarn that I was fortunate enough to get for the sock-a-long she's hosting in her Ravelry group:
I started these on March 1st and weaved in the last end the day before yesterday! The yarn is amazing and very colourful indeed! ;) I decided to try the OMG heel by Megan Williams, but haven't quite decided what I think of that heel yet. It's every bit as easy to do as the fish-lips-kiss heel, but in order not to interrupt the striping sequence, I knit the heel from the other end of the ball, which meant I had two extra ends to weave in, and some of the stitches got kinda stretched. I think I'll withhold judgement on this one until I've tried it a couple of times more. (And on a pair of socks I can actually fit - these are for my sister whose feet are a lot smaller than mine, so I can't really tell.)

The other pair is the Simple Skyp socks with an afterthought heel for GooseBearKnit's Sock-A-Thon. I knit these toe up, two-at-a-time using Regia's Stripemania sock yarn in the Rainbow colourway.
Also very colourful! ;) I'm not sure whether or not it's actually faster to knit them TAAT, but it certainly prevented the dreaded second sock syndrome from rearing its ugly head. Also it made it a lot easier to ensure I placed the heel and the ribbing at exactly the same spot for both socks.

I'm linking up with Gracey's Goodies at Stitch Along Wednesday.