There are so many, many beautiful sock yarns available now and most of them are absolutely irresistable to me. I am so glad I’m not participating in a stash report on sock yarn!
I rolled and weighed six skeins of sock yarn into 50 gm balls so I’m ready to make six pairs of pretty-close-to-matching socks. Then I settled them into a basket; it reminds me of gathering eggs, not that this city girl knows too much about that!
So there you have it — enough yarn for six pairs of socks. Nothing excessive so far, right? Okay, that’s not quite all my sock yarn. In fact, I probably have enough skeins for 15 new pairs of socks.
So, let me see . . . I started knitting socks about one year ago . . . I have completed 3 pairs . . . I have two partially completed pairs, which I hope to complete in the next week, with a really focused effort. If I only get five pairs done a year, why do I need 15 skeins waiting in reserve?
Well, of course you know I DO need those skeins, because I love each and every one of them, and they tend to disappear from the shelves in favor of new patterns and colors.
So, friends, if you’re shopping with me and you see me starting to loiter in the sock yarn area, gently fondling the soft plies and admiring the sensual color changes, the ombre effects, the self-striping, the dazzling solid colors…
please step up to me and say in your firmest voice…
SUSAN, PLEASE STEP AWAY FROM THE SOCK YARN!!!
It probably won’t work. I may need to seek out a 12-ply step program.
–Sue
