Three Plus Socks

originally uploaded by Dr. Steph.

I have tried to maintain a three projects plus socks WIP basket since I discovered the virtual knitting community. Before that I was a buy the yarn you need to knit the project, knit the project, then buy more yarn person. I've gone from being a good girl like Doris Day to a woman in an Amy Winehouse song.

But right now I'm still playing by my rules.  And this is the sock. It's for Emma and uses some very nice yarns. The cuffs, toes and heels uses a lovely purple Shelridge Farms soft touch ultra merino and the rest is Oak Grove Sock in a pretty oceany colour way. I bought them both a Rhinebeck. For kids, one skein of sock yarn isn't quite enough, but two is way to much, so I decided to do the co-ordination thing since I can make purple heels and toes on another sock and get more mileage out of single skeins.

And besides, the colours look great together. Oak Grove is up there on my favourite sock yarn list; it has a shine to it that is very nice and it makes beautiful socks. It reminds me of Rhinebeck, which is also rather nice.

Now to figure out how to get a seat on the subway so I can work on them more regularly. This overcrowding on the TTC SUCKS bigtime, but I'll save my rants about public transit funding for another time and instead stay in the sock yarn happy place.

Comments

[deeni]

Love the shades. Transit?? Think happy sock thoughts!

[Laura]

Wait! Are you saying you had no stash? That you bought yarn for a project, knitted it up, then thought about another project before buying any yarn? What discipline! What strength! I am not in your league, but I admire you!

[Suzanne V. (Yarnhog)]

I blame my stash on the Yarn Harlot. Totally. I had no stash at all until I started reading her, and would even (gasp!) throw out the unused yarn from a project after I finished it. Now...well, let's just say I haven't had to resort to public storage yet.

[Knittripps]

So your other three projects are Roam, Earth Stripe Wrap, and Grey Mist, right?

[Carol]

lovely sock place to be! Another good blog I read is Bella Knitting. Babies, but no kitties. Random Meanderings is pretty entertaining too.

[martin m.]

Don't let her fool you see got stash...we had to buy more shelves she got stash.