Boreal Socks - Chart 2 - 3 repeats

I finally finished the third repeat of chart 2 and am within about 0.5 inches of starting the heel.  I only knit a couple of rows a day on these, usually in the morning before I go to work.  I love all of the beautiful sock designs out there, but I feel bad wearing them with shoes, hidden by pants.  I think it would be fun to bring back the breeches from the 18th century that the men used to wear that come to just below the knee and wear them with hand knit socks and flats.  Of course, to pull this off you would have to knit knee socks and most of the sock patterns I have seen don't come up past the calf.

Knitterati Mystery 1 - Clue 1

I tried to resist the clubs this year, I really did, but I was not very successful.  I managed to give up one.  But one of the clubs that I could not give up was Janel Laidman's sock club.  Last year it was called "Art and Sole," this year it is "Knitterati."  Yesterday the first pattern came out.  Each shipment includes 2 patterns, one sock, and one mystery.  This is the mystery pattern.  It came with a delightful story about someone who is kidnapped by a secret society and must knit their way out of the situation.  Of course I had to answer the cry for help and cast on.  The mystery pattern called for 400 yards of super soft fingering yarn, so of course I thought of Zen Yarn Garden Serenity 20 and I happened to have a most scrumptious red sitting in my latest yarn acquisition pile just crying out to be knit into something wonderful.

I still haven't received the yarn shipment yet, but according to the spoilers it looks wonderful, and I fully intend to cast on the socks when it arrives.