I'm knitting these socks in Trekking XXL, using a chart successfully for just about the first time ever. Well, successfully except that I saw-then-forgot a note about knitting two to change the starting point for the second repeat of the leg chart, so the bottom part of the leg design isn't exactly centered on the top part.
I bought the yarn a while ago (stash busting!), because I wanted some brown-ish socks, and the Trekking XXL in color 101 (now discontinued, that's how long ago I bought it) is a pretty tan/brown/light brown/golden tweedy color, with bluish and purplish hints. Or not.
It's self striping. I may the only person who didn't realize that Trekking is self striping, and I swear to God it didn't look like it in the skein. But now I've got half a sock I've worked pretty darn hard on that, instead of an attractive brown, is a fairly hideous stripe.
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