Amazing lace

The most amazing thing is that they are *finally* finished! These have to be the weirdest socks I have knitted in terms of construction. The whole thing is knitted flat, and then joined together with a seam around the edge of the foot and up the outside of the ankle. This means that it is fiendishly tricky to match up the lace pattern below the buttons - arg! Anyway, I had a good go and G's buttons look lovely :)

Here they are on their own:


And in the company of shoes:


These can be found in the book 'Love to Knit' which has the usual quota of "who the %^*& is ever going to knit that?!" but the occasional nice design..