Why have I cast on another sock?

I love knitting. I don’t try to hide it. I have a yarn shop, it’s obvious. One thing that is not really obvious is my ability curse to start new projects all the time.

What could be wrong with that? I hear you ask. Well starting new projects isn’t really the problem. It’s not knowing exactly how many projects I have at any one moment, but knowing it way more then 5.

I use the same reason every time, ‘it’s a sample for the shop, I have to make it’. That is hardly ever true. I do knit samples for the shop and that is the majority of my knitting since opening two years ago, however the sock I cast on the other night is not even a sample. It’s just a sock.

Cast on - toe up

It’s not a special sock. I won’t have any fancy stitches. I will be stocking stitch all the way, with a rib cuff. The yarn is a variegated yarn so it will still look interesting. But it is, and will always be, just a sock. I will, of course, make a pair of ‘just socks’.

This all started because I have begun to look through all my craft bits and bobs in my house. It’s an attempt to give my husband some sort of office that is free from yarn-mountains. It was getting to the point that if you moved anything, something else would fall down from somewhere!

I brought bags and baskets of yarn, patterns, needles and other stuff down into the living room. I emptied them and sorted the yarn into different weights and put the patterns together. Other stuff and needles got put into another basket to be sorted later. The point is I came across a ball of sock yarn with one sock made and one at the point of turning the heel. This could not be left!

I spent the next two evenings finishing the sock, but there was still about half the ball left. I couldn’t leave it. I couldn’t put it back in the basket with the other 4plys. I had to finish the ball.

Finished Pair

 So I cast on for another sock. May my other projects forgive me.