2026 Finished Projects No 5

 

But Anne, I hear you all say, that is not a finished project, it is a single sock. And you're right it is a single sock, but you're wrong because it is a finished project. This is because it is The Replacement Sock.

Many year ago I made the OH a pair of socks in this yearn; Noro silk sock for the curious. Noro was incredibly fashionable in the knitting world at the time, although it was a bit marmite. For some it was Too Rustic which meant they didn't like all the bits in it s that weren't excluded in the processing as they should have been. But others didn't mind that because of the amazing colours that it came in. Let me say immediately this is not a good representation of how wonderful the colour combinations could be and it was never  a favourite of mine. Let me also add that although at the time I was a big fan of Noro yarns this is no longer the case because I cannot cope with the wide variation of thickness you get in the skein. This silk sock varies from places where it is no thicker than embroidery thread to others where it is practically aran, which is disconcerting, especially the thin bits. 

Anyway I made the socks and the OH loved them and then one wore through on the ball of the foot.Quite soon in fact and big time. One day there was  complete foot on his sock and the next there was practically nothing between the toe and half way down the length of the foot. It was not darnable. However I had a lot of the yarn left and I said I would throw away the one with the big hole and knit him another one, but not straight away because I was a0)sick of the sight of the colours and b) quite disheartened. 

Now, with my determination to work through my wips and kits this year, this rose to the top of the pile, basically because I am obviously going first for the low hanging fruit. All I needed to do to count this as a finished wip was to knit a sock. How long would that take  before I had the satisfaction of marking somethign completed on my lovely spread sheet? The answer was 4 days and I was working on another wip at the same time, a rather more complex one that I occasionally needed a rest from. 

So there you go, No 5.