Socks on two circulars

I've been looking forward to the August meeting for the knitting Guild that I belong to for a long time now.  We had the meeting yesterday and the anticipation was totally worth it.  Why have I been looking forward to this program for soo long?  Well because the program for August was knitting socks on two circular needles as taught by the wonderful Maxine.  Maxine is a phenomenal knitter who I've learned a lot from our conversations about knitting and things in general.  It's hard to believe that I've only known her for about a year and a half.  One thing she's always advocated is knitting socks on two circulars as this is the main way she knits socks.  

Prior to the meeting I picked out a pattern and some yarn, which as it turns out is the yarn the pattern calls for.  I would say that it's pretty unusual for me to knit a pattern with the exact yarn that a pattern calls for, but it seems to be happening more for me lately.  This particular yarn was actually gifted to me from my mom's stash.  She saw someone knitting socks with this yarn at a shop and just had to have it. Then it turns out that I had to have it since she had more than enough yarn in her stash to knit socks with.  

The pattern is Thuja by Bobby Ziegler.  I've had this pattern in my queue for awhile now, actually since December 31st 2008.  The pattern isn't written for knitting on two circulars, but I've found that I've been able to adapt it pretty easily.  I'm actually surprised as how easily I've been able to convert the pattern - not something I think I could have easily done in 2008.  I guess that is what knitting a lot will do for you!

The yarn is Artyarns Supermerino in color 143.  The color is a mix of blues & browns.  This is a variegated color and it is knitting up quite nicely with no color pooling.  I'm actually pretty impressed with how well the blues & browns work together.  Part of me wishes I had more of it because it could have made a pretty top of sorts.  Though let's be honest, I haven't knit a completed garment since my first garment back in 2007, so it's pretty unlikely that I would have knit a top with the yarn.

P.S. I'm going to be playing around with the look of the blog over the next couple of days, so don't be too surprised if you stop by and it looks different.  I should have this finalized by the end of the week.