Orange You Glad It's Almost July?

Four days left to finish my orange socks for the Solid Socks knit-a-long for June!  I'm making good progress at the expense of my teal Stricken socks which have been gathering dust for almost three weeks now.  Once I finish the orange Hederas, I'm hoping I'll pick Stricken back up with renewed vigor!

Although it will be the beginning of July which as well all know, means more cast-ons for new KALs!  But first I need to free up some needles I'm currently using. 

I'm past the heel and gusset decreases for my Hedera socks and have started working down the foot.  I'd love to get to the toe tomorrow and then finish them up by Tuesday.  Ha ha!  Yeah, as if.  But as long as they are finished by the 30th, I'm good to go.

My orange Hedera socks

Pretty, aren't they?  Very springy/summery.  Not that I wear socks once the weather goes over 70 degrees, but you never know.  I may start a new capris & socks fashion trend.  Oh wait, the little old ladies already have the corner on that one.  I saw one nice lady yesterday with pale blue capris, a white shirt with a pastel pattern, and black socks pulled up over her calves with black shoes.  The poor thing.

On a side note, the news is on right now and they are talking about some asteroid (named 2011MD) that is going to pass very close to Earth tomorrow at 1 PM - only 7,600 miles away.  That's the distance from Boston to Shanghai, China.  Luckily, it won't hit us.  Oh, that's nice.  I can keep knitting with wild abandon and not worry about the apocalypse. 

Almost as exciting as a near-miss asteroid hit are my socks.  

If you look closely at my Hederas, you will notice that there is a pattern repeated around the sock, making little columns of prettiness.  You may also notice that one side of each pattern repeat has a holey, lacy look while the other side does not. This... uh, design feature, is due to the types of yarn overs (YOs) and how much yarn is used in each.  Unfortunately it wasn't until I had knit over three inches of sock before I questioned the difference.  I found a very interesting article explaining the different YOs and how to make them the same holiness.  But since I refused to frog and start over, I will use the info the next time I knit these socks.  Which, based on the number of other sock patterns in my queue that I want to knit first, will be around 2115.  Give or take 10 years.