Having a pattern in knitty is a funny thing.  You spend a long time knowing it's coming (but not being allowed to talk about it), you know it will be great fun, but you never know quiiiiite when it will happen.  That's the state I was in for the last several weeks, but after yesterday, the waiting is officially over.  May I present Deflect. These were actually my dad's birthday socks last year.  I finished them while The Boy and I were in Maine in October, and then shamelessly pressed The Boy into modeling them for a little photo shoot [...]