In the midst of all my Christmas knitting this fall, I came across some legacy yarn and could not stop myself from casting on. It was already measured into two equal balls, and clearly meant to be socks. All I needed to do was find the perfect sock pattern to preserve the stripes, and use up every bit of the yarn, because it was too perfectly dyed to waste any of it.
I was inspired by this pattern. I soon realized I had enough yarn for a full sock and abandoned the instep ribbing and short length. But I kept the number of stitches and heel instructions (always fun to learn a new way to turn a heel). It took several tries, since the pattern was top-down, to use up all the yarn - you can't just keep making the foot longer, the extra has to go in the leg. I thought the second sock would fly by, and it did for the most part, right until I ran out of yarn just as it was time to weave the toe closed.
I had a length of yarn the right color still attached to the first sock, so I just threaded it onto a needle and wove the second sock closed.
I wound up with this much left over:
I can't tell you what yarn it is (no label), what it's made of (best guess: high-twist merino with some nylon), or who is responsible for the incredible dye job. My favorite bit is at the end of the rainbow, where one row's worth of yarn runs quickly through every color before starting the long repeats again.
I don't know who my sister had in mind when she bought the yarn, but her niece is enjoying the socks very much.
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