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In the last two and a half weeks I have completed two knitting projects: a pair of socks and a scarf. Each project has used about a skein and a half of yarn. In the same period I have purchased enough yarn to make four pairs of socks, two hats, a scarf and a lace shawl.

And I have no doubt that I’ll buy more before the week is out. I’m not entirely happy with the laceweight.

I know I said lace is next, but I picked up Nancy Bush’s Knitting Vintage Socks (Interweave Press, 2005), and now I want to do socks again. I can do both. Besides a shawl won’t fit conveniently in my desk drawer at work. Socks are portable if nothing else.

I also picked up some Brittany Birch dpn’s and some Crystal Palace bamboo dpn’s. I like the shortness of the Brittany dpn’s, but like the finish on the Crystal Palace ones. Both outclass the Clover bamboos by far.

After I got in today from buying yarn and needles—it was a beautiful day for doing so—it was clear that I needed to organize the stash again and clean up all the loose bits of yarn, the notions and the needle sets lying around. I wound almost all of the hanks of yarn into balls—fourteen of them. Took forever. Most of it will become socks. Rather bright socks.

Will a Seal-a-Meal work for yarn?

Off to Boston tomorrow.