I have a confession.

I hate knitting socks.

I hate wearing socks.

I LOVE sock yarns. I like how fine they are, I like the added nylon, and I LOVE the self patterning ones when I feel like making something effortless.

So, what do I do with sock yarns?

Here's what I've made so far:

Lots of fingerless mitts! I don't care if my feet are cold, but I hate having cold hands. Click on the photo for the free pattern. :-)

I also wove these (forgive the beginner weaving. I am a beginner, after all):

I made the orange scarf to match my mitts, and the purple one is for my daughter's fabulous art teacher, who needs a scarf to wear when she rides her Harley. (You have to love non stereotypical positive female role models. We live in a small country town where all the women seem to be sports mums or are having lots of babies. It's nice for my art-mad daughter to have a glamorous, artistic, Harley riding woman in town to show her that the women in her family aren't the only ones to break the female stereotypes that the boys seem to insist are real!)

Anyway, I digress.

I also crocheted a belt for my daughter but the photo sucks and she won't let me block it until it gets dirty so you don't get to see that one :-P

I wonder what a hat would look like in yellow sock yarn?

:-)