FO Friday- F socks

These have taken me the longest of all my alphabet socks so far, the knitting was very plain and fast, but the embroidery slowed me down.

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Pattern: Far Eastern Flair by Stephanie vand der Linden

Needle: 2.5mm dpns

Yarn: Knitpicks Gloss

Mods: Shorter leg, three circles removed from embroidery.
New skills: YOYO heel, twisted rib cuff.

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This is a great pattern, it is nice to make a plain vanilla sock sometimes, they work up fast and can be knit without too much concentration. The embroidery turns a plain sock into something pretty.

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I also learnt a great new heel type- the YOYO heel which is a short row heel using yarn overs instead of wraps. There are details of it here, although that is in no way connected with the above pattern. It works up really fast without the fiddly wraps but I am not too sure about working around the sock twice, it seems to add fabric where it is not needed across the top of the foot.
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I am also enjoying the knitpicks gloss, it is really fat for the length to weight. 100g gets you about 400m, so the same as a typical sock yarn but it is definitely fatter, I worked it on 2.5mm needles rather than my usual 2.25mm and got a nice dense fabric. It is also soft and shiny but I will have to see how it washes and wears.

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These are going to be subtitled secret socks. The embroidery which jazzes them up is hidden when you have shoes on, like a little secret only you know about.