I have finally manged to finish the hybrid socks I started after finishing the rainbow ones. Hybrid because I used the left over yarn from my recent mini mochi socks and that left over from the pale rainbow ones I made years ago. 
Here they are. 
I was rather pleased that they came out so long as I wasn’t sure how long that would be. You can see from the odd orange part on one sock that because there was, for some reason, more yarn left over on one ball, I decided rather than waste it to use if for the other sock. This of course adds an extra half inch.
Here is one of the socks laid over the earlier ones. 
Unlike the ‘Rainbow Socks’ I feel I can start wearing these right away!
And, for anyone who might be interested, I can’t resist sharing a photograph of my most recent and possible ideal, at least for me, loaf of bread. 
I have always preferred soft rolls to crusty ones and in fact my favourite bread when I was a child was a bap. The artisan bread I have made tends to have a crust that is lovely straight out of the oven but later just seems rather hard, especially for my bread knife. Now the milk bread I made had a much softer crust but the texture was a little cake-like, so I thought I would try the same recipe but using half milk and half water. The result had a thin easy to cut crust and a proper bread like texture.
Interestingly I have a recipe in my bread book for a Scottish Bap and that is half milk and half water. I am making some pizza bases as I write this and next would like to try some foccacia!
And finally a few photos from my garden.
I was delighted to see that the one bed was full of scilla siberica 
and the primroses were also coming on nicely. 
There are some more, not yet in flower, further along.
I was also pleased to see that the Lenten Roses are doing very well even after all that snow. 
I like the way the colours of each sock compare. 
And here I am wearing them. 
or 
But at the moment I am not sure when to actually wear them as I know they will not look as good once they are washed, even hand washed. So at present I am saving them for a special occasion!
I am now starting the other one, as it makes sense to make them in parallel if I am going to make best use of a relatively small amount of yarn.
I think you can see the pattern developing now.
My original idea had been to make it a little longer but I liked the way the colours went and also it occurred to me that using the wool left over from my previous socks in this type of yarn 
I could maybe make a hybrid sock to use up the rest of the yarn, with the pale rainbow yarn for the toes and heels and ribbing. So I weighed the older yarn and made a toe. 
My hybrid sock may be a little short as I will have about a repeat of the rainbow colours of the newer wool. But if it is too short I could maybe add in some other left over sock wool since at least the foot part will be in this deliciously soft mini-mochi!
and similar flowers to the above with roses and ?. 
The roses are much redder than this but, as someone very colour conscious, I frequently bemoan the ability of cameras to capture colours accurately.
and 
The flowers were much more open on Friday so I took a picture of the first vase from above. 
The other flowers didn’t make an attractive picture from above so I just photographed one of the roses. 
I was also making some more bread: a white loaf this time, so I photographed that. 
As you can see in the above picture. (several years later).
With a short row toe this is the underside of the sock.
I love the way the colours change!
The yarn was Regia Galaxy. An interesting pattern in the colours I thought!
because I adapted a pattern with three quarter length sleeves and a fitted body and so had to guess the amount of yarn to buy and I over-estimated.
I don’t feel the sewing up of the seam is perfect but it won’t show too much if worn round the back.
I used the same two rows of three border from my book as before although I chose it independently! 
Because it is bigger than before it does take longer to dry but I like it in use.
and the hat I made for my daughter. 
My camera really didn’t like this yarn. The colour is much more of a vibrant peacock blue. Imagine the above but brighter and a little darker. The above has been edited by me for colour but nothing I could do would get it the correct shade.
It is alpaca and merino wool, wonderfully soft.
The hat was very popular and my daughter put it on immediately!
The yarn is Regia (One of my favourite makes of sock yarn). Nothing much on the ball band. Colour 0525 which I have found on-line called Papillion. I think I must have picked it up in 
based on the four times fourteen rows that form almost half of the blanket I made for my daughter. 
As with my other sea and sand blanket, I am not going to fill in the ripples, but have not finally decided on the edging.
It’s hard to get socks to look good when lying flat which is why when I knit them for myself I also photograph them being worn!
and when I know how long she would like her socks to be, compared to her mother’s (her mother wanted fairly short ones!), I will start a pair for her.