16/01/2026
Pair number 6 in as many weeks…. my knitting-mojo reignited by a declaration of love by my pal for his dwindling stack of me-knitted socks. Some of them were worn pretty thread-bare and I’d weeded them out when we moved house. It had indeed been quite a while since I last knitted him any, so I picked some pretty yarn and cast on.
It turned out my stash of sock yarns had dwindled and of the commercial variants it was almost non-existent. That discovery came just in time to shout “sock-yarns!” in the direction of Santa’s elves. They heard me and so I opened a box full of Regia 4- and 6-ply yarns on Christmas Day.
The socks in the pic are the third (and last) pair of the 6-ply yarns I received that day. Turns out it takes me 3 evenings to knit a pair of these, using 2.5mm dpn’s (my cherished sterling silver ones). Their tips have just the perfect shape not to split the 6-ply Regia yarn. Combined with the stitch-count (56sts in the round) it makes for a speed-perfect set up.
But this is it for 6-ply for now, this evening I’ll be casting on with “regular” sock yarn again, on 2.25mm needles. Stitch-count 68 for the leg and 64 for the foot. Those numbers don’t sound that different from 56, but if you add the higher row-count as well, the total stitch-number to knit means it takes closer to a week to knit a pair (I only knit in the evening).
I sure got a kick though out of knitting like a little machine for the past 10 nights😁
