So, after I finished the manly socks, I pulled out my sock yarn stash to see just what I have available. I have it all listed on Ravelry, but having the sock yarns together in front of me is a lot more helpful. I have actually got a fair bit of wool/nylon blend yarn, though not many manly colours. Some of the yarns I probably won’t ever use for socks as I know from experience it won’t wear well, such as the cotton blend sock yarns. I wonder whether 100g of 4ply yarn is enough to knit a baby garment instead..?

Anyway, I eventually found some very boring grey Sunbeam St. Ives 4 Ply Sock Wool, and decided to use it to make Mr B another pair of Having Hope socks, to make up for the feltedness of the first pair I knitted him.

So instead of knitting another orange sleeve on the Tomten while on holiday, I knitted a toe up sock. The yarn is so boring that it needs a good pattern and being twisted into dozens of cables really works. It’s a lovely pattern that I really enjoyed knitting the first time round so it’s also no hardship to knit it again.

I’m knitting a size smaller than before as the previous socks ended up being a little baggy on the feet. After a brief in-progress trying on session, these are proving to be a perfect fit and are perfect when I fancy an change from knitting tiny baby stuff.