What is your favorite thing to make with sock yarn, other than socks? I enjoy knitting socks, but I don’t enjoy wearing hand-knitted socks (blasphemy, I know!)
Unfortunately, I’m not a big wearer of shawls either, though I will knit one occasionally.
I’m looking for ideas for my sock yarn stash. Ideas, patterns, anything welcome.
I’ve made fine knitted gloves and mitts with sock yarn.
I’ve also used it to crochet scarves.
I might try some fingerless mitts. Thanks!
The ‘short fingered’ gloves are great too, and not too challenging.
How about stuffed animals? Even if you don’t have kids in your life, you could donate them to a kid focused charity. Ravalry has a pattern filter by yarn weight if you haven’t checked that out.
I’ve never made stuffed animals, but that’s an interesting idea.
I’ve got a couple of tops now knitted from sock yarn. I have pretty sensitive skin especially around my collarbone and neck and can’t wear most types of wool there, so the merino / nylon combo is great as it’s so soft and non-itchy. Bonus is that the thin yarn makes for a lovely drapey fabric, although of course it does take a lot more time than knitting with something bulkier. Fave one that I wear all the time is my Kala from Pip & Pin, will dig up some photos later after work!
I like the idea of sweaters, but I don’t have nearly enough of any color since I’ve bought amounts with socks in mind.
Hey scrappy sweaters are totally a thing!
Nearly every wearable I make uses fingering weight yarn. I’m full-figured, so I have found that chunkier patterns (anything over aran weight) becomes unflattering due to drape.
I have made one long-sleeve cardigan, one t-shirt, one sweater vest, one shawl, and one scarf out of fingering weight yarns. =) I see the possibilities as endless for non-sock items! But also, note my username lol
That’s a great username!
I have a ton of sock yarn, but not nearly enough for a sweater. Any recommendations for successfully blending colors, especially when almost none of them are solids. I love the idea of sweaters, but I think I’d struggle to match colors to make something that works.
Blending colors definitely gets tricky between non solid colorways. The trick is to photograph the yarns side by side in grayscale. If there is not a lot of contrast between the colors in grayscale, then the colorways will just muddy themselves in a pattern.
Thank you. I’ll try that.
