First, HWMBO and I went to see Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix last night, and the suit that Dolores Umbridge was wearing was almost exactly the same overall shade of red pink as my Tofutsies socks, and what looked like a very similar texture. They were immediately dubbed the Dolores Umbridge socks.
(A refresher: I can't find the digital camera, so I can't take a picture of the finished socks, but this is the most recent picture. It was taken at the Falcon Ridge Folk Festival, about a week and a half ago, just before we packed up and left. You can see the first sock here, as well.)
One of the irritations in knitting those socks was that there were four knots in the ball. I emailed the very nice people at Tofutsies and asked about that, and they told me that they had been working on their manufacturing processes to reduce the number of knots in a ball, hopefully so that most balls have no knots in them, and they've improved them. I'm definitely going to knit more Tofutsies socks; even the knots weren't that bad, because the yarn is marled and has a natural variation in color and texture, so you can't tell without a close examination where the yarn was joined - it was a little bit annoying when I found a knot, but it wasn't the disaster it would have been in something like a faux-Fair Isle Sockotta, where taking a foot or two out of the repeat means that you have a very visible break in the socks.
Also, I would recommend seeing at least some of the colors in person before buying. The colorways range from the fairly conservative to the fairly bold, and the difference between a bold orange and pink colorway that suits you and a bold orange and pink colorway that does not is not always the sort of thing you can tell from a picture on a computer monitor.
