Wengwings!!!

I just launched my latest sock pattern. It's a stranded colourwork sock with a penguin design on it, which is where the name comes from. I've always been a fan of penguins. OK, they smell, but they're also cute and very entertaining. One of the highlights of a trip to South Africa in 2003 was a trip to Boulders Beach near Cape Town where African penguins nest. You can even swim from adjacent beaches and I was lucky enough to have a pair of penguins swimming very close by. So, it had been in my mind for a while to design a pair of colourwork socks with a penguin motif. I'd sketched a few possible designs and decided to swatch one to see if it "worked" in knitted form. I showed the swatch to my children to see if they could recognise the motif without being told what it was - a test of the success of the design. Instantly my two-year-old cried out "Look, Mummy! Wengwings!" I knew I had my penguin design, and I had a name for the pattern too.
As always, the pattern is available on Ravelry, and through the link to my pattern gallery and shop on the left.