Unfortunately, no matter how strong the need, facts were against me:
- I was going through a tight spell financially, and sock yarn tends to be rather costly
- even if I had the money, the selection in my LYS is rather poor.
To get around these obstacles, I first tried to recruit my Mum's help. She lives in Poland, so she has access to some rather attractively priced fibres. After a few weeks, my package arrived:
This is cotton/polyester blend. It should be great for warm weather lacy socks. I'm also tempted to turn the coral red skeins (I've got three) into a little pullover... We'll see how it goes.
Some more time passed and I finally had extra money for yarn shopping. I raced to my LYS and bought this lovely thing:
As you can see, I'm already swatching for gauge. The yarn is a very posh mixture of superwash wool with a tiny bit of synthetic fibre added for durability. It costs almost 10 euros/100 g, so it's pretty expensive in my book, but this is what you can usually expect to pay for sock yarn around here.
Unless, of course, you find a yarn sale. Sometimes I have to travel for work and when I do, I never miss the chance to check out local craft shops. This baby...
...was a steal at 5 euros/100g and it's destined to become socks for my Better Half. He's not particularly enthusiastic about the idea, but I bet I'll be able to turn him around. Or else...
Anyway, soon after that trip I found even better bargain. A discounter in my area got some yarn in stock and after seeing their rock bottom prices (2.50 euros/100g) I went haywire and bought a kilogram of delicious, fingering weight wool/polyamide mix:
AND I might acquire some more - if only there's anything left...
I can definitely say that my hunger for sock yarn is temporarily satisfied. I am a proud owner of 1.7 kg of suitable fibre. Now the only thing left is to knit all those socks...
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