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Single Sock Syndrome

Single Sock Syndrome is when you finish knitting the first sock and are so tired of it, you can’t bear to knit its mate right away. “I’ll do it later,” you tell yourself as you toss the single sock into the big bag of single socks.

You know you have Single Sock Synrome when you start envying your diabetic friend whose foot was amputated.

Socks take an inordinate amount of time to knit because the yarn is so thin and the needles are so small and you have two feet. I did the math a couple of days ago, and it makes no sense at all to knit socks: a pair of socks takes approximately $15 worth of yarn and 26 hours of labour. Zeller’s sells socks for $2.99 a pair.

Being a yarnaholic, I didn’t buy just enough yarn to knit one pair of socks. I bought a lot of sock yarn. I couldn’t make up my mind, so I bought all the sock yarn I liked. I now have a choice to make: either I knit a lot of socks or I feel a bit guilty for not knitting a lot of socks.

At any rate: I am close to completing the first sock (I swear, I WILL knit its mate before knitting anything else!) using the Sockology pattern and the Lana Grossa Meilenweit Cotton Fun yarn (45% cotton, 42% wool, 13% Polyamide) in colour 506.

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6 comments to Single Sock Syndrome

  • Since you’ve not been blogging, you must have finished that second sock by now.

    In which case you should have reported it here.

    In which case you would have blogged.

    But you haven’t blogged.

    My mind cannot handle this paradox.

  • Dakota

    There is one advantage however…. if it stays a single sock, you can never lose the other one in the laundry :)

  • Scrim: Is it a paradox or a pair-of-sox?

    Actually, I have finished the first sock and cast on the second sock! The lack of blogging is due – at least in part – to computer problems one night (the mouse just decided not to click anymore), followed by a 14-hour power outage the next night (did you have power?), followed by a night out. The blogging will resume this weekend. :)

    Dakota: That’s what I like about you – you always look for the silver lining!

  • Very witty, Ms Zoom, however by your own admission, it is not pair of socks!

    Power outage, the power went out, I had a nap, and then it was on again.

  • p.s. Dakota could be onto something. You could knit single “fashion statement” socks that people wear with the one sock that is not lost for a hip non-symmetrical look.

  • You know, you could be onto something there. Somehow, though, I don’t see myself as the person to initiate such a trend…others look to me for many things, but never for fashion inspiration.