Orange is usually associated with halloween, hippie, harvest or highway (you know the weather proof vests worn by highway workers, I salute them). I never see orange-colored clothing at a trendy boutique or squished onto a rack at the local outlet store. This color seems to have built quite a bad rep for itself. But tone it down or mix it up and it turns from a fashion nay to a fashion yea. Enter the cousins – pumpkin, peach, rust,amber.
I chose another close relative – terracotta – to be fashioned into my Mystery Socks. This was a part of Socktoberfest and offered every week as a clue. First clue was the cuff, second the leg, third the heel and so on. Designed by the ingenious Kirsten Kapur, this was a fun sock to knit and breaking the pattern into bits made it a breeze.
This was the end result and I have to say that I love the pattern, the yarn, the color.
TTL Mystery Socks
Pattern: Mystery Socks 09 by Kirsten Kapur
Yarn: Malabrigo Sock in colorway “Terracotta”
Needles: Size US 1.5/2.5 mm
Started 10/1 – Finished 10/30
pearlin
Omg! that is just gorgeous!wish I lived closer to you so that I could bug you to teach me knitting beauties like these! 🙂
celticcaston
Scrumptious! And they were so much fun to knit!
kerry
Yummy! Love the cables.
Yasmin
Wow! What lovely work and great picture showing the up close details. You knit so beautifully, girl.
Rufarocrafty
It’s beautiful, Preeti!! I love the colour and the pattern!! Going extremely well together!!
Denise
I love, love, love your socks – and the colour! Perfection!
Rene' Sharp
Just perfect. I adore the color of these socks!!
Srividya
Lovely color, lovely design….so pretty. I wish i could knit a sock soon.:)
mazhalai
you are seriously on a sock roll.. i am enjoying it!
Rain
You’re so right about orange, even I used to think twice about the color but now am more open-minded to see the beauty of the lively yet rich colour.
Love the socks 🙂
knitnkanmani
I love this color , its soooooo glamourous