A New Pair of Socks

I have been drooling over some colorwork yoke sweaters lately, but it's been years since I did stranded colorwork.  Clearly, I need some practice before I dive in to a sweater.  Fortunately, I ran across the Imber Socks pattern last fall and I decided to try a pair this year.  There are three slightly different designs in the single pattern and I'm working the Imber Stripes version (houndstooth colorwork on the leg and stripes on the foot).  This is actually the second time on the colorwork because I frogged back to the ribbing and restarted after the first time.  It's going much better now, but I'm still very slow.

The last time I worked stranded colorwork, I held both colors in my left hand (I'm a Continental knitter).  It worked well, but I felt like I was constantly re-tensioning the yarns in my hand as I would use one color more than the other.  I decided to try knitting with one color in each hand this time.  This meant I had to figure out how to knit English style.  Thank you, You Tube!  I still don't know how to purl English style, but I'm not sure I need to know this, at least right now.

The yarns I'm using are Cascade Heritage Sock in Snow and Riveria Heather (the houndstooth portion), and I'm using a bit of Dream in Color Smooshy in Milky Spite for my cuffs and possilbly a few stripes in the foot.

I'm trying to work on it a little every day so I can teach my right hand to carry the yarn.  I'm also trying to keep my tension balanced, so when I finish these socks I can get them on.  So far, this is not a TV kind of knit!