Talk to the paw

The Tuxie socks are nearing completion. I got the toe on the second one done last night, but as mentioned before, there was a little something I wanted to add to it.

Some of you may remember that Tux had a very special paw. While all his other paws had pads mixed of pink/black...

 

...his one front paw was all black with one perfect little pink jelly bean toe.

 

There was just something so delightful and charming about this footsie, it made me smile whenever I saw it.Coincidentally, when he lost his leg, the one that remained was the one with my favourite paw.

When I designed my tattoo, the originally plan was to have the one toe in pink - just like his paw. In the end, I decide it looked too odd in a tattoo and kept it all black.

As I started designing the sock, I once again considered including a pink toe on the paw print...

But as my colourwork skills aren't up to working with three yarns at once, I nixed that idea.

But as I was stitching away, the idea came to me....

What about a duplicate stitch paw on the heel? It's not very big, and wouldn't take too long. And adding in the pink toe would be much easier. In the end, I decided there wasn't enough room on the heel... but the toe wasn't as cramped!

 My duplicate stitching needs work... but I think it's going to be  a nice little tribute to my still-favourite boy. (Of course, in the pattern, it will be totally optional. Watch for the FO and  pattern release soon!)