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I really like red. I have a pair of Red Sox socks, made from Briggs and Little Tuffy, in the Red Mix and Ecru colors. The Knitivity socks (yes, faithful readers, I still owe you a picture) have a lot of red in them. I have several as-yet unknit handpainted sock yarns with a lot of red in them. So a few months ago, I was really pleased to find Tofutsies, a sock yarn I had been hearing about, in a beautiful red and white colorway. I brought it home, divided it into two toe-up balls, tossed it into the knitting bag for a future project when I had freed up a set of 2mm needles, and forgot about it.

Well, I finished the Knitivity socks. There was a set of 2mm needles freed up. And in a burst of responsibility, I ripped out a sock heel that I had put on far too early. I'm not sure quite what I was thinking; perhaps I was subconsciously anticipating a horrible accident in which I lost the front half of my foot. Whatever the reason, I had knit a sock that was about two inches too short to go on my foot; but once I ripped out the heel, knit a longer foot, and reknit the heel, I had enough momentum to finish it; and there was another set of 2mm needles freed up.

So yesterday I pulled the beautiful red and white Tofutsies out of the knitting bag, only to find that it had gone all pink. I think it was hanging out with some mostly-blue Schaefer Anne and forgot its original purpose. But maybe I was beta-carotene deficient, or under the influence of Mercury in retrograde, or just slightly off in my color perception that day. Regardless, there is no denying it: the yarn is pink. Screaming, rich, remind-you-of-the-1980s pink.

So far the reaction has been, "those are for you?! But they're pink!"

@#$% it, I'm knitting these socks, and I'm wearing them. If anybody makes a fuss, I shall feign red-green colorblindness and pretend to be shocked that they are not a calm blue; if that does not work, I shall stab the offender repeatedly with an 8-inch long, 2mm diameter nickel-plated steel dpn until he bleeds on the socks and they cease to be pink.

That should show him.