I don’t generally wear short socks. They get kicked off while sleeping, and they slide to the bottom of the bed and hide from me. Even worse, sometimes they get swallowed up in my shoe while I’m walking and that’s guaranteed to ruin the moment. Short socks leave me with too much leftover yarn. I much prefer to knit and wear longer socks. However, despite all that, I sometimes get the itch for a quick knit, and a quick new pair of socks. This time around I turned to a pair of Rose City Rollers by Mary Catherine Bryner. This was my first time knitting this pattern, and I see why it’s such a popular design. I used some seriously ancient ONLine Supersocke and knocked out a pair in a few days.
Sure, yeah, I’ve got more than half the skein left, but I can easily imagine striping the rest with a solid yarn (or another self-striping or tonal) to make another pair.
I’m spending this week up in Maine to see my family, a.k.a driving around the yarn store capital of America. It certainly feels that way! I’ve made a promise to myself to rein it in little, I’ve still got stash from the last time I was up here that hasn’t been touched. And, to be honest, from the last few times I was in Maine as well. Trying one’s best to use up older stash first does lend to yarn ageing gracefully in the stash for a while. Good thing yarn doesn’t spoil!