I have developed a little birthday tradition – knitting socks for myself in Trekking XXL. I cast on each year on my birthday with one of my coveted skeins made up of different colored plies – they seem to have stopped making colors like these – and finish them sometime later.
A couple years ago I went and bought up a bunch of skeins off of Ravelry destashes, so hopefully I can keep this tradition going for a while yet.
Nice simple socks like these tend to become my purse project. This pair accompanied me to many of my knitting groups and other knitting opportunities away from home. They even got to hang out with my knitting student’s first sock ever!
They sampled Tim Tams at Friday movie & knitting night.
And eventually, they were finished. And photographed to test out some sock leg mannequin + light box options.
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florapie
florapie  10/28/16 @ 4:42 pm
I’m making a shawl right now with one of these skeins, and I feel like it’s a waste of the yarn because you can’t see how it stripes! But I’m more than halfway through so I don’t want to frog it. Problems only another knitter would understand…
Ariel
stariel  11/04/16 @ 1:08 am
I sympathize! Knitting problems. 😉 Mine are more of the “must hoard this yarn so I can have enough for birthday socks every year!” I think I’m set for a few years now thanks to Ravelry destashes.