These socks have been given to the birthday girl (hi Kerri) so I can now blog about them.

Yarn: Ewe Give Me The Knits, and a little Ms. Gusset
Pattern: my own toe-up heel-flap pattern
Needles: 2.5 bamboo dpns

Kerri was a recipient of a previous Socks For Others Club pair, so I had her measurements and colour preferences already. On the latter I had a problem – I had no yarn in the colours she’d picked before. But I had seen her wear brown before and it’s a nice neutral colour. The EGMTK yarn was thick and cushy, too, so an extra treat.

However, I started to suspect I’d run out of yarn before the end of the first sock. So I slipped the stitches of the first one onto a thread and knit the second until I ran out of yarn. Sure enough. Not enough yarn. What was going on? Why would anyone produce a skein too small for a pair of socks?

Well, it turned out I’d already knit a hat out of this yarn. Whoops.

What to do? I could add another yarn. I could get some length added by removing the toes then knitting then in the new yarn, top down. But this was extra thick, cushy yarn. No ordinary sock yarn would go with it. Fortunately I had some Ms. Gusset sock yarn in the stash in two colours, which was thicker than standard 4ply and only an eensy bit thinner than the YGMTK. The purple did not go at all, but the aqua blue striped with the brown made for a very pretty combination. So much so that it’s a good think I have stupidly narrow feet, or I might have adopted these and knit Kerri another pair.

Once I had finished, I was in love with the Ms. Gusset yarn, so I cast on for a pair of socks for myself. And once again, I ran out of yarn. Short socks would have been okay if I’d been using standard sock yarn, but on days you want extra warm cushy socks you want full length ones. This time I only had purple cushy yarn in the stash, and it most certainly did not go with the aqua blue.

Diving into the sock leftovers, I found a little miracle ball of an aqua blue a shade darker than the one I was knitting. Not really the same thickness, but these socks were for me and I didn’t think the varying yarn would be too noticeable if I did alternating stripes.

I had just enough yarn to make the socks a good length. And the day after I finished them, the weather took a turn for the chilly, so I wore them all day. I love them!

Yarn: Ms. Gusset and leftovers
Pattern: my own toe-up heel-flap pattern
Needles: 2.5 mm bamboo dpns