Wonder of Wonders...

Do any of you have piles upon piles of yarn that look like these examples???

I'm betting that most of you, like myself have tons of sock yarn. When I typed "sock yarn" into the search engine on my laptop, I got back 951,000 results. That's a lot of information about a lot of string. As the song lyrics go, "What is it good for..." Well, socks of course, but will we ever make as many pairs of socks as we have stashed sock yarn???   As the commercial says, "There must be another way." or in this case another project other than socks. Don't get me wrong, I love making socks - socks, socks, and more socks - warming the feet of the ones I love is one of my knitting missions in life, but trust me that the picture above only shows a tiny little cross-section of my sock yarn stash - I don't think I'll actually live to be 150 years old and that's about how long it would take to use just the sock yarn stash as it is now, and you know there's more to come. So, what to do - eh???

Enter stage left: Sock Yarn One Skein Wonders (2010) - edited by Judith Durant, the creator of the One Skein Wonder book series. Thank you, Judith!!! Inside the covers of this miracle book are 101 patterns to help me use up all that sock yarn and only 25 of the 266 pattern pages are for socks. Hurrah!!! All the rest cover a multitude of useful objects just waiting to be knitted. There are hats, mittens, gloves and cuffs - Oh My!! Scarves, Shawls, and shrugs to warm your neck and shoulders - Yippee! Small little wonders for the wee ones and clothes for their dolly's as well. Lastly - bags, purses, decorations and little wonders for the four legged family member. In plain simple English - there are projects galore and enough of them that you would never have to knit another sock for quite some time. Many people that tell me that they are afraid to make socks (don't be, it is not difficult and it is addicting,) but they love all the sock yarn options that jump into view when they go to the LYS. Here's your chance to indulge in those lovely little skeins of self-stripping goodness! Go for it!!!

I think you will really enjoy reading this book and enjoy making the projects inside even more. I highly recommend this book and indeed the One Skein series for every knitters library. The books are inspirational and have easy projects. The books are a wonderful addition to your gift knitting library as well.

Knit on, Read on....
The Knitty Scribe