#or let it languish at a thrift store in my small warm town where there's little need for a warm wool sweater

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Advice wanted for a fiber festival competition: How do you choose what category to enter a finished object in?

I've got a pair of socks I'm knitting from homespun, and because this is me and because I hadn't thought to enter them into the competition until last night, there are mistakes I didn't bother to fix (e.g. a potentially misaligned row in the eye of partridge heel flap, some places in the gusset where I accidentally used k2tog instead of ssk, etc).

I'm wondering if it's worth it to submit the entry despite the mistakes?

First, the socks are brown and textured enough that the mistakes aren't glaringly obvious (to me, anyways). Two, the lace section is nice and only has one small error in the cabling that's hard for me to even find). So if I fix the easily accessible errors like the misaligned grafting stitch on the one toe, I think maybe it won't be too bad). Third, these do use handspun in a natural color and from a sheep in my region, which has some potential to boost them competitively.

I hardly expect to win, but I'm not sure what my expectations should be. I could enter them as handspun socks, or as a handspun naturally-colored garment (There is not a category for naturally colored handspun socks).

I'm thinking they may belong better with socks by virtue of fit-of-yarn-for-project judging standards, and I can just make note in my application that the color is natural and from a local sheep?