Year of Projects 2: Plain Winter Sock

Folk Knitting in Estonia: Aino's Gloves • Anu's Christmas Gloves • Anu's Mittens • Anu's Stockings • Avo's Mittens • Ellen's Stockings • Helgi's Mittens • Hilja's Mittens • Ilmar's Socks • Juta's Stockings • Kalev's Mittens • Kristi's Mittens • Laila's Socks • Landra's Gloves • Liidia's Gloves • Liivi's Stockings • Maarja's Socks • Maimu's Mittens • Marko's Mittens • Meida's Mittens • Merike's Gloves • Rita's Stockings • Sander's Mittens • Tiit's Socks • Ulla's Gloves • Virve's Stockings

Knitting Vintage Socks: Gentleman's Shooting Stockings with Fluted Pattern (1887) • Gentleman's Sock in Railway Stitch (1889) • Gentleman's Socks with Lozenge Pattern (1895) • Bed Sock in Lemon Pattern Fancy Knit Stripe (1896) • Cycling or Golf Stockings with Fancy Cuff in Trellis Pattern (1897) • Heelless Sleeping Socks (1897) • Child's French Sock in Citron Pattern and Diaper Knitting (1898) • Child's First Sock in Shell Pattern (1899) • Gentleman's Half Hose in Ringwood Pattern (1899) • Gentleman's Sock for Evening Wear (1900) • Evening Stockings for a Young Lady (1900) • Fancy Silk Sock for a Child of 5 or 6 Years (1900) • Gentleman's Fancy Sock (1901) • Gentleman's Plain Winter Sock with Dutch Heel (1901) • Child's Sock in Miranda Pattern (1904) • Baby's Bootikin (1905)  •  Little Child's Sock (1907) • Infant's Fancy Silk Sock (1909) • Ladies Useful Stockings (1913)  •  Ladies Silk Stockings with Clocks (1914)

Last week I finished the socks I had been working on - Gentleman's Sock for Evening Wear. My blog post is here, but the gist is that I didn't like the finished socks and will likely be ripping them out to salvage the yarn for a pattern that might better suit.

Since then I've been trying to work through some of my other WIPs. I've got a pair of Ensnared socks on the needles that will likely be complete in the next few days, and a Sarcelle lace scarf on the needles that I'm hoping to finish by the end of the month. If you've fallen off your chair in shock, reading that I am knitting something other than socks, then the full disclosure is that I'm trying to knit through the last two skeins of lace yarn in my stash as part of my challenge to Surmount the Stash 2013.

In that vein I've been giving a lot of thought about what to do with a skein of Classic Merino Lace from Knitting Notions in a colourway called Pumpkin Spice. The skein is less than 400 yards so it wouldn't make a full size shawl or scarf. But ... I could hold it double and match it up with sock yarn scraps in my stash to make a striped vanilla sock, couldn't I? And socks don't get much more vanilla than this Gentleman's Plain Winter Sock. Don't you love it when a plan comes together? Now I just need to find time to cast on!