Autumnal socks in winter - FO Friday

I've made a start on my goal of 12 finished pairs of socks for the year, I may have cheated by starting them in October but I've finished them in 2011 so they count to this year's total.

Autumnal mystery socks
Pattern: 2010 TTL Mystery Sock by Kirsten Kapur
Yarn: Ripplescrafts hand dyed sock yarn in Spring Myrtle



This picture is a bit closer for colour accuracy but the red is a bit darker than this




Just because I like playing with the macro function on my camera




I enjoyed knitting the socks, I wasn't sure about the sampler style of them but actually it really does work and I like them a lot. When I actually focussed the knit was quick and the pattern easy to memorise. The yarn is lovely too and I think when I've worked through a bit more of my stash I may join the Ripplescrafts sock yarn club again as the service was excellent, the colours are really rich and the dye doesn't run when you wash them as it has in other handdyed yarn I've used. This reminds me I must pick up some white vinegar and attempt to set the dye a bit better on my lime green socks which many washes later continue to make the water look like the cheap and shockingly sugary limeade I drank as a child.

Also the blasted cardigan of doom was finished last night, I took a quick, late night, no natural light photo as proof but I think this cardigan deserves a blog entry of it's own with some better pictures of me modelling it.