Wednesday, March 6, 2013

WIP Wednesday take 3

I have two things this week, but I fear one of them will never reach their finished object state: my lovely Clandestine socks. These are so beautiful and so consuming... in more ways than one. I cast on the second sock with trepidation. Would I have enough yarn? Of course I will! I always have gobs leftover from socks. It will be fine. 



Famous last words.


My second sock still has two repeats of the lace pattern to go before the heel, and I really don't think it's going to make it to there. I contacted the dyer of Gynx Yarn, Laura, to see if she magically had a half a skein, but she didn't. She does have another skein if I want it, which brings me to my next conundrum.
How much is too much for a single pair of socks? I love sock yarn, quality sock yarn, and it's not cheap. It's not super expensive and I have no trouble with the fact that most of my socks contain $20 or so worth of yarn. But $40? For a single pair of gorgeous socks? I just don't know.

And there might be enough yarn here, but with a pattern this labor intensive, it's hard for me to want to knit them with the thought of running out of yarn looming in my mind.  So I put them on a spare pair of DPNs, and they will sit for a while, until I decide what to do.



But what cures the "I've run out of yarn" blues? Stripey socks! Stripy socks out of my Cakewalk yarn leftovers. I have been dying to knit these up long before I even had the scraps. The amazing Susan B. Anderson knit some patchwork socks ages ago and I remember I wanted to participate in the KAL she was hosting so bad! But I had only knit two pairs of socks, so I didn't have all the lovely leftover bits. But now, a year later. I have six pairs of socks out of Cakewalk Footsie alone, and my stripey patchwork socks are looking amazing!


Can you believe I started these this morning? I'm already to the heel on the first sock! This is the perfect palette cleansing knit. I have a feeling that when I am done with these, I will be ready to take on my Clandestine sock once again :-)

Happy knitting!

Linking up with Tamis Amis for WIP Wednesday.

6 comments:

  1. Your socks are lovely! I think if you love the socks no amount of money is too much.

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    1. That's very true :-) My husband may not agree, but I do!

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  2. Two pairs of lovely, but very different socks. Can you wiegh your finished sock to see how much yarn it took. If it took more than 50g (or 2oz, depending on the size of your skein) you know you have a problem, if not you can knit on knowing you will make it to the end

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    1. That is such a good idea! I don't have a scale -- is there a certain kind I should purchase?

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  3. Such beautiful socks I think maybe its time I learned how to knit socks. I agree with AlittleBitSheepish on weighing your yarn to see if you have enough left/ease your mind. I use an XO 5 lb scale(both for yarn and food) that I bought on amazon, but your local department store or food store should carry a scale that will do. A digital scale is much simpler to use especially with small weights, like we deal with in fiber.

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    1. You should knit socks! They are so satisfying :-) Thank you for your advice about the scale! I will pick one up :-)

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