More of a moss green color in real life. I was thinking about how long it’s been since I posted a photo of my socked feet online and the foot fetish people might be getting desperate. Whatever floats their collective boats.
Pretty happy with how they turned out. I made the heel flap a little shorter than the pattern calls for and decreased the gusset stitches every row instead of every other row. I think my main issue with knitting heel flap socks is the excess fabric in the heel and ankle area that just bags on me. Increasing the rate of decrease seems to have done the trick. I wore these to bed and they stayed on my feet all night, which is some sort of record.
I had to be really careful with the photo, though. Tried my best to crop out my terrible backyard mowing skills, but then spent an hour and a half on my little .01 acre mowing and weeding the tar out of it. Red as a beet by the time I finished, but feels like a productive Memorial Day for me.