Since I am NOT a sock knitter...

LOL. I guess. I just have to admit that I am... partly at least... When I took my son to the lake I didn't want to take any of my bigger projects, so where was I supposed to turn... maybe because I started to listen to the Lime and Violet podcast, in which there is awful lot talk about socks and sock-yarn...
First I finished up the socks I had on my needles for EVER...

My simple toe up ribbed pattern. Made them up from bits of leftover yarns I got at the second hand shop... it is actually striped (stripes of three different yarns), but doesn't look stripey at all...

then...

I had these Regia stretch yarn in my stash. Got it on sale from here. When it arrived I was kind of meh about it because it looked much more red on the screen, and in real life there was more pink and yellow in it... But once I started to knit it I loved it, and it looked more orange, which is much more to my taste.

The pattern is the Back to basic socks from Knitty. I choose it because it let the yarn play up its colors, but still gave me the opportunity to learn something I wanted for a while... Flap heels for toe up socks.

The finished socks look rather idiotic while not on the feet, and in fact they are extremely generous at the arch... I do have a high one, but this is too much even for me.

But it does have an interesting construction and I love the the finished sock.