These socks lived on my needles for a looooong time. They felt like quite the albatross around my neck at times. This yarn started out as Copper Penny Socks, but when I picked them up to work on them again there was a tiny hole in the toe area and I wasn’t even to the heel flap yet. I explained this more fully in this post. I cut those socks off from the ball and started anew as stockinette.
I believe the yarn from this particular Etsy vendor was weakened before I got it, since the Monkey Socks I made with her yarn also developed a hole within two wears. I believed this more and more as I was working to finish these socks. I had to repair at least four weak spots. By this I mean that I came to several areas that were frayed down to a tiny strand. I cut these parts out and Russian joined the ends together. This was incredibly frustrating, especially the one that was two rows before I planned to bind off. I don’t know if these socks will hold up at all, but I was determined to finish them anyway. I’m not sure if this is moth damage or just a poor yarn base. I am so terrified of moths. Most of my stash is inside bags inside a plastic container, which also contains little satchets of lavender flowers for good measure. I have little hunters (aka cats) that take down moths on a regular basis as well.
Well, at least they’re done. I still love the colors. I wish I knew they were going to be sturdy.
Maybe you can just let them be a more restful sock. The colors are awesome!
Major bummer about the holes. As pimplyserfect suggested maybe they become your light wearing socks? The colors are great, but that sucks about the weakened yarn. Hope you had a chance to contact the Etsy seller.
I contacted the seller months ago, but she’s been “on vacation” for a loooooooooooooong time.
Sad, that’s even more disappointing.
Yep. I wasn’t contacting her to get any kind of recourse, but I thought she should know that her yarn was weakened. I have one skein of her yarn left. I’m not sure if I should just give it away or what.
These are gorgeous. I hope they last longer than a few wears. How weird….
Wow, that sucks. Cute socks, though!
You could always use the last skein to knit something that would not get too much stress – eg wristlets maybe.
True. It would be fine as a shawl as well. I just loathe the idea of finding more weak spots…
Man, that stinks. :/
Oh how frustrating! I love the color, though! It’s so hard to find yarn like that!
As I said before you are one amazing person! Love reading your blogs.