Now done up the leg

This yarn is delightful - it does stripe - broad stripes of about five rounds each, with an absolutely predictable pattern - white, blue red ad infinitum. Very Montreal Canadiens.

It's an easily knit sock - the yarn has a relatively tight twist, so I have had no problems with splitting and, as I predicted from the cuff, this will be a nice, firm sock.

You can probably tell the stripes still amaze me. This is the first sock I've knit (and there have been one or two) where the stripes were like this - not created by each change in colour being more or less a round, but by lengths of one colour after another. There's little shift between colours, with the exception of the red change to white, where there is a little transfer. There is no purple, however, where the blue and red meet. The stripes simply change colour.

So far, so good.