I am still knitting, amazingly enough, even if I’ve barely posted here at all this year. The current sock project I’m carrying around with me is the Ravelry’s Sock Knitters Anonymous September Mystery Sock designed by Jeanniefanihi. I’m knitting it in some orange yarn that I got from Inspirations Yarn a couple years ago as part of a mystery sock kit (I find it slightly ironic that I am now using it for a different mystery sock, but a mystery sock none the less). It’s sort of a pastel hunter orange (as you can see in the photo), but there’s a little bit of semi-solid variegation going on, too. I remember when I got it, it was such a shocking color to me when I pulled it out of the package. I mean, orange… yuck. I would never knit with orange; I’m just not an orange person. So, into the stash it went and stayed.

Enter the start of the new Sockdown! schedule. I hadn’t done one of the mystery socks before, I liked the look of Jeannie’s other designs. But, knitting the mystery sock meant I would have to knit an orange sock; that seemed reasonable, besides I wouldn’t be alone in my orangeness. I remembered this poor skein hiding in my stash and pulled it out — definitely orange enough to qualify for the challenge. I’m actually liking the way it’s knitting up — being knitted seems to be toning down the brightness a little (I hadn’t even realized that it was a semi-solid color until I saw it knit up), and I like the fiber composition (60% SW merino, 25% mohair, and 15% nylon).