Yarn Along

I’m getting completely off track with my Christmas crafting.  I’m supposed to be making the little animals for 4 of the kids.  I still need to make a car shaped pillow for David too, and I’m not quite sure how to do that yet.  So all of that is pretty much on track, but I got a bit distracted because as I was going through the master list of Christmas gifts yet to buy, I realized that part of the contents of the kids’ yearly Christmas stocking is a good pair of wool socks.  For a cross-country skiing family like ours, it’s an essential.

So this idea hit me this year, that I could skip buying them this year, and just make the socks from yarn in my stash.  It’s not exactly cheaper, but I’m not spending any cash, so that’s a bonus.  I’m starting to see 2 big problems with this plan: I have never made socks before.  Baby booties, yes, but I’ve actually never made socks.  Second, is I have 5 children, which means just whipping up 10 socks as if I had the time.

This plan is very soon approaching a scrap point.  I started making socks for Silje first, and figured I’d just go down the ranks.  I picked this pattern for her socks, and since she wears the same size shoes as me now, I’m just fitting them to my feet, which is easy.  Since she has narrow feet like me, I used a size US 0 needle for these, but after trying them on, I wish I would have used a US 1 because it is a bit snug from side to side.  The length is good.  Maybe they’ll loosen up with wear.  On the other hand, maybe my feet are a bit wider than hers.  I’m not sure on that one.

I’m not sure what pattern I’m using with the boys yet, but for Ingrid and Solveig I was planning on using this easy one from Purl Soho.  Maybe I’ll just make some socks for the girls, and buy the ones for the boys.  My boys LOVE homemade gifts, (more than my girls even) though, so they may take that hard.  Maybe I’ll save them for Valentine’s Day.  Maybe they’re not getting socks this year.

There’s a lot of maybes going on right now.  ‘Tis the season.

At any rate, I shouldn’t be working on these, but I am.  I will soon be returning to working on what I should be working on.  I get distracted easily.

Also, I’m totally making a pair like Silje’s for myself soon.  They’re so cute.  I think I want mine to be an slightly off white and grey stripe, with a light pink heart on the heel.

This is the time of year I get distracted by anything pretty and all things wool.  I’m such a procrastinator.  I’m also supposed to be working on a baby gift for a new niece coming in March.  I have zero time for falling in love with sock knitting right now.  Well, at least I should finish this pair.  That feels at least a little responsible.