I used Lorna's Laces, in a color called "Huron."
The two socks don't match perfectly in color...this is often an issue with variegated yarns; it seemed one skein had more blue in it, or the blue seemed to stack up more.
It's an interesting pattern to knit. I admit, on the leg, the first half of the pattern, the knit-plain rounds are tiresome because you have to move stitches from one needle to another (for the decreases in the next round to work out right). The socks do fit a lot better than I thought they would: I thought they would be far too loose but the pattern doesn't have much stretch, so they fit right.
There are a lot of lace patterns that mimic leaves. And there are a lot of socks that use leafy patterns - there's this one, and the Overlapping Leaves socks in the Interweave socks book (and I do want to do another pair of those sometime). And Nancy Bush has a pair of Birch-Leaf socks in Gathering of Lace.
And there are lots more. Ravelry, if you're a member, lists many leaf-themed sock patterns. (I particularly like the free oak-leaf sock pattern from Knotions: you can get it here, even if you're not a Ravelry member)
And, I had almost forgotten it, but the Ravelry search reminded me: long, long time ago, I wrote a sock pattern involving a leaf-like stitch (and again, you can get it from that link, even if you aren't a member of Ravelry). Also from the long-gone Knitlist days, there are the leaves of grass socks
I guess leaves are just an inherently interesting decorative element. Or maybe lots of knitters, traditionally, cared about and were familiar with plants and nature. It does seem that there are a lot of leafy lace knitting patterns out there. I like that, though. I like having socks with leaves on them, feeling like I'm walking around with the thing I study memorialized on my feet.
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Which might have been a good argument for the Ford Fusion Hybrid: keep your instantaneous fuel consumption on the low side, and the instrument panel becomes festooned with leaves. Floor it a couple of times, and they vanish until you mend your fuelish ways.
I hasten to point out that the EPA test for fuel economy pays absolutely no attention to this sort of thing.
The Knitlist is still around. Not as many people post to it as in pre-Ravalry days and I don't know that anyone posts a pattern at Christmas as their gift to the list. But occasionally there are still free patterns posted. People still help with questions, etc.
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