Year of the sock November- More Christmas socks

I realised this morning that I forgot to post my November sock of the month while it was still November, oops!
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Technically that is not quite true, these appeared as a finished object a few weeks back:
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But they have friends! :
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That's right, thanks to the wonders of 6ply speedy knitting I managed to get two pairs done, which is convenient as that is one pair for each parent. The blue stripes are for my Mum, the brown and grey for my Dad. I added grey heels and toes as I thought there was not going to be enough yarn, there would have been so it was a lot of unnecessary ends to sew in, but at least they look a little snazzy (as snazzy as grey and brown can get anyway!).
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The pattern for both is Thuja by Bobby Ziegler. I love this pattern, it is so fast and more interesting than a standard rib sock. They were both made in Regia 6 ply for speed and durability- past Christmas socks have worn to holes in about 4 wears so a yarn with a 10 year guarantee sounded good to me.

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I am not sure where I am going to fit socks in this month, still a lot of presents to see to. Wonder if I can make a pair in the 5 days left after Christmas is done with :D

FO Friday- Mmmmm, sockitty

These will make another appearance later in the month as my sock of the month for November. I have to say that they are single handedly (footedly?) responsible for renewing my sock addiction. They are part of my Mum's Christmas present, and were going to be normal k3 p1 rib socks, but I decided to go a little more adventurous (just a tiny bit, nothing too fancy or they would not be worn) and do a seed stitch rib.

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The pattern is a combination of Thuja by Bobby Ziegler and the free one that comes with Regia sock yarn. I used Regia 6 ply (for its 10 year hard wearing guarantee) and worked on 3mm needles as I like a slightly denser sock fabric. They worked up so fast it was like magic!

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The combination of bigger needles, a stitch pattern with anything interesting and some coloured yarn was great, I am most definitely back into making socks.

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One ball made exactly one sock, with less than a gram left over. Which was excellent, except the second ball started in a different place so I had to go into the third ball and have quite a bit of leftovers.
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The seed stitch rib shows up much better in real life, but you can just about see it in this photo (also hands are not great for modelling socks when trying to take a photo):

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