After the success with the little trial socks I just had to knit a real pair of socks. Nobody appreciates nice hand-knit socks more than H., he always wears them at home when it gets colder. So, H. and I picked out a pattern from my 2-at-a-time book (by Melissa Morgan-Oakes) and we went to the wonderful yarn shop in town, and he picked out this yarn. It is Scheepjeswol Super Noorsewol Extra (two parts white, one black, number 1716). The pattern is Ragg Hiker, the very last one in the book.
It took me some work to find out the correct gauge. I never did manage to get my swatch to match the book, but after some trying I figured out that if I knitted the smallest size of the pattern, it would come out large enough for H. I used a size 4 (EU size) circular needle.
It seemed to me that the leg took forever to knit, and I could not wait to start turning the heel. When working on the heel I messed up a bit with regards to the 2-at-a-time technique, I knitted the reinforced heel one at a time, but I should have knitted them for both socks at the same time. This caused my socks to be on the needles wrong, so for the rest of the heel and the toes, I moved each sock on to its own needle.
The only thing I am not quite happy about it the final closing of the stitches using the Kitchener stitch. This leaves a bit of a bump on the tip of the sock, so maybe next time I will knit my final stitches on a much smaller needle and help it close up that way.