Thrilled to have found a Lemmy knitting group! I’m a sock obsessive, I just love knitting socks, so I’ve ended up with an staggering amount of “scrap” yarn. The solution - blankets. This is my second Cosiest Memories project and this time I have a Plan. The first one was truly random, with lots of placement errors. When it was finished I did a dark icord edge, and suddenly it was smart!

So for the second one I’m adding an inner border of that same colour and (eventually) will finish with icord. I might even knit some more socks!

  • kat@lemmy.ca
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    1 year ago

    I love it! Reminds me of crochet blankets with the little squares. Are all of the yarns the same thickness? Sorry if that’s a dumb question I’m new to knitting.

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      1 year ago

      Generally “sock yarn” tends to be fingering weight (US) / 4-ply (UK) / whatever they call it in other parts of the world. And it’ll generally include something like nylon or similar to make it more hard wearing, too.

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        1 year ago

        Ah that makes sense, I think I skimmed the “sock” part to mean “scrap from former sock projects” rather than “sock yarn”. I know you generally make socks from sock yarn but, you never know!

    • MrsDoyle@lemmy.world
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      1 year ago

      There are no dumb questions! Yes, it’s mainly 4ply sock yarn, though some squares are lace-weight held double.