March | 2009 | PDXKnitterati

Queen of Denial.

Um, I bought some yarn. Now, you may remember me saying that I don’t stash. And I don’t.

Because it’s sock yarn. And so many of you have said that sock yarn doesn’t count as stash.

Besides, I’m not a sock knitter, right? At least not with skinny yarn. Like this stuff.

Butternut Woolens fingering weight, Ocean colorway.

It looked thicker than fingering, more like sport. We’ll see. I wanted to make another pair of the Seafoam Socks that I’m designing, with lighter (but not too much lighter) weight yarn. So it’s not really stash, it’s next in the queue.

Did it matter that I’d bought this, earlier in the week, for the same reason?

Not really. Because I subsequently realized that the Lanaloft isn’t superwash, which I like for socks. (Although I do have worsted sox that aren’t superwash, and they do fine. Shhhhh!)

But here’s the other thing. I need to make something for the church’s youth group dinner auction. I think it’s going to be another pair of Arctic Blast Mitts, but this time in icy blue instead of off-white. Like this Malabrigo Silky Wool that I, uh, bought yesterday afternoon.

Stop laughing! It’s not stash unless I don’t knit with it this month…

In preparation for Sock Summit, I thought it would be a good idea to get Cat Bordhi‘s book, New Pathways for Sock Knitters, just to try to wrap my mind around different ways of seeing things.

There are top down and toe-up socks in here. Bordhi begins with a sample sock of each kind, but they’re not your usual top down or toe up. I decided to go for the top down first, since that’s my usual modus operandi. Here are the Little Sky Socks made out of worsted weight Dream in Color Classy.