it all started out so very innocently. My plan was to start a new pair of socks. Just one pair out of the lovely yarn i got conned into purchasing at my LYS. They were gonna be pink and cute-see here? this picture? this is how it all started...
as you can see i have it all planned out. One ball of fortissima sock yarn, my directions for some zippy little toe-up's based on Ann Budd's directions and my sock needle case just waiting to open up! Well, the best laid plans right? so how did this one picture of domestic bliss turn into what happened next? (what did happen next? well....a miserable mess happened next.) I should have know it was gonna be bad when the socks morphed into legwarmers for Abby (my nine year old daughter) and those particular legwarmers became the object of her disgust...evidently this particular nine year old, no matter how freezing their house is DO NOT WEAR LEGWARMERS, not even is their oh so loving mother begs and pleads and cries. Not even if she bribed said daughter with a trip to gamestop in exchange for one picture in the legwarmers ( and she refuses to give them back so i can ball them back up and turn them into a pair of socks. This makes me very suspicious that this she does indeed like the legwarmers and this is only her evil nine year old way of trying to make me crazy...but more on that later).
So Now what, left to my own devises, am i supposed to do? I decided that there are too many people in my family walking around in store bought socks and i need to really get on top of that problem. My fix? Take all the sock yarn out of the stash and do some serious thinking!!! The results are below. (P.S. that is the last time i ever saw that gauge counter!)
I like this picture! mostly because it really doesn't tell the entire story and when you look at it its not too bad of a sock stash! It is however not very well staged and all i can tell you is that when i finished counting i realized that i had enough sock yarn to knit up 42 pairs of socks (eyes roll and head shakes...how this got so far beyond my control is cant remember...but the LYS owner did actually open up a charge account for me at the store...ohh this is soooo very bad) what is worse is that i just gifted a good size bag of sock yarn to knittygurl (who in my defense did just today help me score 2 skeins of malibrigo lace yarn! What a menace to society!) AND i am on a mission to purchase some new noro sock yarn and a skein or two ofsock yarn from Green Mountian Spinnery-Madness! that is all i can say! This is total Madness!
So what is the new plan? well I did join the The Great Sock-Off over at ravelry, which will take care of 12 or so skeins! hey...its a start...
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