Sock yarn

Sidetracked? No.

Monday, April 19th, 2010 | UFO's, blah blah blah, knitting, stash acquisition, yarn | No Comments

Today I had posted a picture of a project I am working on to my Twitter account. I immediately got a message from a friend telling me to get back to my blanket!

Let’s crunch some numbers, shall we?

In my yarn stash, I have enough skeins of sock yarn to complete somewhere in the neighborhood of 26 pair of socks. No, I’m not joking. If I want to have scrap yarn for my blanket, common sense dictates that I best get my ass to knitting!

So, in the last week in a half I have finished my Tudor Grace scarf, which got me a nice ball of shiny purple yarn…then I did my first Simple Things with some Socks That Rock in “Fire on The Mountain”. Nice scraps there too. Now I am working on second Simple Things that will eventually be a gift… even more yarn for my Insanity Blanket.

Simple Things alongside my Strappy Tank

More knitting...

I have started to make plans for the other sock yarn in my stash. The stash has yet to include my Wollmeise acquisitions… but I am planning projects for those too.

I also snagged some of the sock yarn out of the stash to put up for trade on Ravelry. So far, so good. I actually traded four balls of Knit Picks Palette for sock yarn scraps. Yes, I am *that* determined to get this blanket to work.

I have also gotten some great donations from friends of mine at my LYS!!

So, blankie update time…

So far...so good.

I am 49 squares in. 2 are not attached. One more to the 50 square mark! I am moving slowly right now, but once I get a few more projects under my belt I can start to devote more time to this. Plus I will have more colors to choose from once I get some of my swap stuff. I am hoping for some yellow.

Solid. Yellow.

I never knit anything for myself in yellow and there is spot in the blanket that looks like it wants it.

Tags: Insanity Blanket, Sock yarn, Socks that Rock