I fell in love with the little slanting stitch in the textured shawl and, with permission of the author, decided to make socks out of it. The result it amazingly cute and the socks are super comfortables.

September 12, 2013 version updated with the correction for:

Errata: Continue to work the foot (as of round 3 above) until about 1.5 or 2 inches before the desired length.