Emergency K(n)its

Ah, summer. The woolens get washed and stored, the cottons come out.* Among other things, I went through our winter emergency kits. Not the bag of flares and such that lives in the car year-round, but the one that gets tucked in over the winter months, in case of stranding.

I turned everything out and made some substitutions (more wool, less acrylic), keeping in mind that the contents of the bag are soon forgotten about and with luck never worn, so this is not the place for a knit item one is actually fond of.

I realized that the kit contained no socks. It seemed as though an extra pair of wool socks might come in really handy, particularly if one's feet got wet. I looked around and had nothing I wasn't fond of. So I dug some worsted weight wool out of the stash and made a pair of socks. I had scraps of green, so I threw them into the mix, which turned out fortunate as I needed the last bit of green to finish the second sock's bind off.

Pattern: my standard sock, with numbers adjusted for worsted weight
Needles: US 5 (3.75 mm) dpns
Yarn: 2 skeins of Knit Picks Wool of the Andes in Chestnut
Mods: I worked a thermal pattern over the instep and leg - knit rows alternating with k1/p1 ribbing rows

*We are going to ignore the fact that it was so chilly this morning that I put on wool low-cut socks.