Spring Greens

Just finished these socks tonight and I'm really pleased with how they turned out.  The pattern is Cadence by Verybusymonkey (available on Ravelry) and the yarn is 75% merino/25% nylon from YarnUndyed which I dyed up using Wiltons Cake Dyes.

The dye was painted onto the yarn using a decorators paint brush and applying dark dye at one end then progressively paler dye as I went along until the last bit was almost, but not quite white.  It looked just how I planned (not always the case) and actually knit up the way I expected/planned it to. 

The pattern was much easier than it looks and both yarn and pattern were a dream to knit up.  I thoroughly enjoyed the project and plan to wear my very, very bright socks at every opportunity.  The lace pattern reminded me of very young ferns just opening and seemed an ideal pairing with the yarn as soon as I saw the pattern on Ravelry.

I had a really decent amount of yarn left over at the end of the project so the yarn evidently goes quite a long way.  Another partial skein for my stripy sock breeding project.