Sock knitting and repair

Wahooo! My January socks for the hubby got finished in January. I am on sock knitting schedule. This yarn is vacation yarn bought on our trip to Czechia in 2019. It was a gotta buy something purchase and now I wish I had bought more. The shop was definitely a yarn store but it was full of what I would call baby knitting yarns. Fine weight in pastels. Luckily I found this Best Sock yarn. And the kicker is I think it was inexpensive yarn too. No like really inexpensive. Well at least hubby can enjoy these lovely memory socks, even it he is not getting more Best Socks Czechia socks.

Vlna Hep New Best Socks 

I am mostly on schedule for my February socks too.  Aren't these fantastic colors? I know they look a bit Chistmasy but as a person that still has their Christmas tree up I am not worried. He will wear them all year round. Especially if they keep landing at the top of the clean sock pile. Good thing my guy is not terribly picky.

Story time... before we left Oregon I found out my friend J has roughly the same size feet as me. Actually a bit smaller which worked out well for her since I had socks that had shrunk some with normal wearing and washing. She went through several small piles of "these don't quite fit me anymore" socks and took home about ten pairs. 

I received a text and photo of one of my socks had "sprung a leak.' She had not snagged it on anything and confirmed she was washing and drying them properly. She was very concerned she was doing something wrong and "did not want to get put in sock jail!!!"

We talked back and forth and we think it was just due to wear. I had knit them in 2009 so she "was a grand old dame" that had put in her time. I offered to convert to wristlets for her but J passed since they would be too big. 

A few days later I received another photo saying she loved this particular pair but they too were running thin and have limited sock time left. They were knit in 2007. By now I am starting to suspect some of the socks were not too small but pulled from the wearing rotation due to pending doom. Naah they were too small, my feet and ankles have spread a bit in the past 10 to 15 years. Turns out I have two skeins of the same yarn in my stash. So J will be getting her third pair of bespoke Yarnkettle socks. And most likely a fourth pair since the other colorway is named Crazy Woman. She thought I was teasing her when I mentioned I have two skeins of that yarn in my stash. I said nope I am offering. Followed by excited hand waving and me me me!!!

Burt was not concerned he knew Auntie J was sockworthy the whole time. Auntie J is a good, caring and responsible person, she must be good with socks like she is with kitties.

While that was going on in Oregon, I had two pairs "spring leaks" here in New Mexico. These were put back in the rotation after the move and could not handle that last little transition. I have a bit of leftover yarn from my Adriene swap socks but I don't think it is enough to reknit two toes... maybe I will just have to use a different color and do some contrast toes.

There is no leftover yarn for these, I never even had enough to finish them the first time. Good thing I have a bag of leftover sock yarn to pick from. And with reknitting there is less pressure to make them look perfect I can choose any wacky combo that strikes my fancy. 

 

So if I reknit sock toes does that count for my 12 pairs a year? Or is that another tally? Must I repair 12 pairs a year too? Aww heck I don't need more rules for my knitting. I just want to KNIT HAPPY, so I will.