Another thing I completed over break were the Weasley Homestead socks:



This is an easy pattern but it works up nicely. I think I'm going to do a second version of it some time, in sort of a "semi-solid" yarn (I have some of the "kettle dyed" KnitPicks sock yarn that would probably look good done in this pattern).

It's a broken rib pattern - six rows of the ribbing done one way, then six rows of it done the other way.

Here's a close up that shows the texture maybe a little better:



I like simple patterns like this. First, because I'm not two years making the socks (like some of the twisted-stitch pattern socks I have done in the past). And second, there just is something pleasing about something that's simple but not TOTALLY plain and boring (hence my trying out different ribbed patterns on self-striping socks, rather than just knitting them all plain).

The colors in the yarn for these socks almost make me think of tennis courts now as much as they make me think of chalkboards...that particular green seems to be a common color (or at least it was the green of the tennis courts at the place where I went to Day Camp years and years and years ago when I was a kid).