Almost Knee-High

The Jaywalker pattern is pretty, but it sure takes up more yarn compared to regular stocking stitch. I was able to increase  without disrupting the pattern (much). I wanted to add some ribbing but I ran out of yarn:



I have some of that patons yarn that I dyed red brick and orange because I wanted to make socks for my husband. But I ended up not liking the colors much and I never got to knitting another pair of socks for him, especially after he complained that the Lion Brand hand-knitted socks were scratchy and he's never worn them again. But I digress. Here are the two skeins that come from that former food color experiment.



The picture's horrible, but what matters is the color. I'm planning on doing the ribbing of the socks in brick red. I don't think I should use the orange. A third option would be to use the original yellow color, but that would be even worse.

I'm thinking it's time to give the spouse a second chance and see if he'll wear a pair of hand-knitted socks made of a better yarn. We'll see.