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.

  • DogMom@lemmy.world
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    1 year ago

    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.

  • thegiddystitcher@lemm.eeM
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    1 year ago

    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!

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    1 year ago

    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

    • GrouchyLady@lemmy.worldOP
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      1 year ago

      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.

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        1 year ago

        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.