Eye Candy Friday

the skies are gray, the air is still a bit chilly, and the trees are still bare, but the snow has melted (for now, it's still only march) and earlier this week i came across the first sign of spring.

i believe this is witch hazel and it almost matches my socks!

these are nutkin socks that i knit with sundara sock yarn in orange zest (i've had this yarn in the stash for awhile so i don't know if you can get this color anymore).   i don't do short row heels (well i can do them, i just don't like to wear them) so i made a heel flap and a traditional kitchenered toe (the original pattern has a short row toe).  i also was afraid i'd run out of yarn, so i made a shorter cuff (a too short cuff as it so happens).  these socks were fun to knit and deceptively easy.  and with the orange and red in there, they're project spectrum worthy too.  i raveled the details here.

so that's all i've got.  happy friday!

ETA:  a couple of people have asked if my socks twist any.  there's just a little bit of twisting that i was able to straighten out for the photos.  i did not block the socks.  apparently other knitters of the nutkins have noticed a major biasing of the sock.  i'm thinking that maybe my socks are less twisty because the leg of my sock isn't so long or because i knit different heels.  who knows?