Eye of the Tiger.

I'm not the only person in my house who likes to have toasty toes during wintertime activities. Sadly, Mike's collection of knitted socks is small. I started this pair of socks months ago, and I really wanted to finish these before we departed on our trip. Having a deadline is good motivation for a project like this, because GOSH men's socks are an endeavor. 

I'm mostly certain that Mike's socks require twice as much knitting as my own, and honestly, I don't enjoy knitting them as much as I enjoy knitting socks for myself. I feel pretty guilty about this, because Mike LOVES his knitted socks and puts in requests for more on a semi-regular basis. Somehow, they always land at the bottom of my priority list. 

These are Syncopation Socks knit in Wollmeise Sockenwolle.  The pattern gets a bit lost in the color scheme, and there's more pooling than suits my preferences, but this is  a solid, basic sock pattern.  Typically, I  would wait a year before knitting Mike another pair of socks, but during my assessment of my own collection, I decided I could let him jump queue.  Since, it's my habit to always take a pair of socks to knit during flights I got a jump on his next pair already, which means he's another day closer to that full sock drawer.