So, I have a lot of sock yarn stash. I love this about me, but it makes me sad that I don’t get to use more of it. So this year I decided to do something about it. I gathered all of my sock yarn stash in one place.
I chose 4 of my favorite sock yarns, and I had each of my two kids choose their four favorites. This was the results are below. From left to right, it's Xander's, then mine, then Maya's.
I then pulled out all of the patterns that I had printed off of the internet and all of my knitting magazines, and I paired up all 12 sock yarns with a pattern. I now had 12 sock kits so that I could knit a pair of socks a month from my stash, like my own “Amy’s Stash” sock club.
However, I also joined the Rockin’ Sock Club and the Woolgirl Sock Club. These both ship every other month and alternate with each other, which means one pair of socks per month from a sock club. Two pair per month. 24 pair total. I can knit that, if not much else. So why am I behind???
January: I have a baby shower to go to, and (of course) I am knitting gifts for it. So I knit up the circular baby blanket, finished on January 17th. I start an adorable baby sweater the same day, which I finished on January 30th (JUST in time for the shower the next day!) Awesome of me, but it sucked up the month of January in terms of knitting.
My self stash January socks were a Basic Sock Yarn Pattern by Ann Budd, and I used Sunshine Yarns in Weasley’s Wizard Wheezes, a sock yarn that I have loved since I bought it and hadn’t had a chance to use it yet although I had owned it for over a year (this is what I’m talking about!) So I started it January 27th, after I finished knitting the baby sweater but before assembling it. These socks were interrupted by the January shipment of the Rockin’ Sock Club! All of my sock club shipments so far have been at the very end of the month in question. I decided that sock clubs take priority over personal stash socks, so I started Queen of Beads on January 28th.
February: Finished Queen of Beads on February 18th. These are knit in STR lightweight in My Blue Heaven. Continued working on Basic Socks.
I chose 4 of my favorite sock yarns, and I had each of my two kids choose their four favorites. This was the results are below. From left to right, it's Xander's, then mine, then Maya's.
I then pulled out all of the patterns that I had printed off of the internet and all of my knitting magazines, and I paired up all 12 sock yarns with a pattern. I now had 12 sock kits so that I could knit a pair of socks a month from my stash, like my own “Amy’s Stash” sock club.
However, I also joined the Rockin’ Sock Club and the Woolgirl Sock Club. These both ship every other month and alternate with each other, which means one pair of socks per month from a sock club. Two pair per month. 24 pair total. I can knit that, if not much else. So why am I behind???
January: I have a baby shower to go to, and (of course) I am knitting gifts for it. So I knit up the circular baby blanket, finished on January 17th. I start an adorable baby sweater the same day, which I finished on January 30th (JUST in time for the shower the next day!) Awesome of me, but it sucked up the month of January in terms of knitting.
My self stash January socks were a Basic Sock Yarn Pattern by Ann Budd, and I used Sunshine Yarns in Weasley’s Wizard Wheezes, a sock yarn that I have loved since I bought it and hadn’t had a chance to use it yet although I had owned it for over a year (this is what I’m talking about!) So I started it January 27th, after I finished knitting the baby sweater but before assembling it. These socks were interrupted by the January shipment of the Rockin’ Sock Club! All of my sock club shipments so far have been at the very end of the month in question. I decided that sock clubs take priority over personal stash socks, so I started Queen of Beads on January 28th.
February: Finished Queen of Beads on February 18th. These are knit in STR lightweight in My Blue Heaven. Continued working on Basic Socks.
March: Finished my Basic Socks on March 1st. Go me! Unfortunately, I’m behind on my personal stash socks and my February sock club because it hasn’t even gotten here yet! Also on March 1st: started my February personal stash socks, Cookie A’s Monkeys using Artyarns Ultramarino in turquoise and brown (another of my favorites!) March 4th : started my February Woolgirl Sock Club kit! These were complicated with much cabling and took me waaaay too long to finish.
April: April 6th: Finished Majestic by Elizabeth Warner knit in Zen Yarn Garden Serenity in Gold Dynasty. Very pretty. April 7th : started Rogue Roses by Stephanie Pearl-McPhee in STR Mediumweight Gertrude Skein. These are still on the needle. One is done and the other is halfway down the leg.
So my current status is: January and February sock clubs complete, March sock club in process (will probably be done before April is over!) and April sock club should be at my door any day now. I am trying to knit like the wind and have my March sock done before April arrives! Personal stash socks: January is complete, February has ¾ of one sock complete. So I am behind and falling farther behind all of the time! However, my goal is still to knit 24 pairs of socks this year! Really, I’m just trying to make up for the whole month of January that wasn’t spent on socks, and the huge amount of time that the Majestic socks took!
Sorry for the huge blog, but I guess what I lack in quantity I make up for in volume!
April: April 6th: Finished Majestic by Elizabeth Warner knit in Zen Yarn Garden Serenity in Gold Dynasty. Very pretty. April 7th : started Rogue Roses by Stephanie Pearl-McPhee in STR Mediumweight Gertrude Skein. These are still on the needle. One is done and the other is halfway down the leg.
So my current status is: January and February sock clubs complete, March sock club in process (will probably be done before April is over!) and April sock club should be at my door any day now. I am trying to knit like the wind and have my March sock done before April arrives! Personal stash socks: January is complete, February has ¾ of one sock complete. So I am behind and falling farther behind all of the time! However, my goal is still to knit 24 pairs of socks this year! Really, I’m just trying to make up for the whole month of January that wasn’t spent on socks, and the huge amount of time that the Majestic socks took!
Sorry for the huge blog, but I guess what I lack in quantity I make up for in volume!
1 comments:
That's awesome! Definitely cool to kit up your own yarn so that you finally get to enjoy knitting with it.
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