Yarn Along!

I am obsessed with sock yarn lately.  I love how fine and bright and sprongy it is.  I recently pulled out all the sock yarn I have in my stash and just gazed at it for a day, dreaming about all the possibilities.  (This from a girl who has never made a pair of adult socks!) 
My two sets of appropriate needles were being taken up with a languishing legwarmer

and a sock meant for a baby that is now 9 months old. 

So with visions of some socks I want to knit for myself, I evaluated the misshapen baby sock and discovered where I had gone astray.  I took a breath, ripped back to the heel, and picked up all the stitches that were waiting so calmly for me to do just that.  I finished that sock in a rainy afternoon, and promptly cast on its mate.

Elizabeth Zimmermann's Knitting Without Tears has been my bedside reading for the last little while.  I'm savoring it this time, whereas I scarfed her down upon the first reading. 
Something she said about being frugal while not compromising quality stuck out to me in these lean times. 

"If you prefer to economize and love to knit, make your sweaters with very fine wool and many stitches.  A thin sweater weighs much less than a great heavy one, and, broadly speaking, wool sells by weight.  Fine knitting gives you many hours of your favorite hobby before you have to sally forth and make another capital investment."

Oh, EZ, what would I do without you?