I’ve been knitting consistently for about three years now. In that time I made one pair of worsted weight socks. They turned out ok, but I wasn’t super impressed with socks. TBH, I’m still not. Given that I can buy perfectly good wool socks from Costco in a pack of four for the same price or less than a skein of sock yarn, making my own seems silly when I could be making sweaters.

That said, several factors have encouraged me to reexamine socks:

1. I really love working on my tiny DPNs

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Socks are probably less fiddly than toys which I enjoy making

2. It is easier to get souvenir yarn in 100 g fingering weight quantities than anything else

3. Not all fingering weight yarn is appropriate for shawls and scarves

And so, I’ve cast on a sock. We’ll see how this goes…