In my stash, I have some yarn… actually a lot of yarn if you ask a non-knitter, and a reasonably sized stash if you ask a lot of knitters. I would even say it’s a bit small, and that I need to move to give it room to grow.
The problem is that I have some yarn that I’m not that excited to knit, like most of my self striping sockyarn. It’s perfectly fine yarn, and I know it wears like iron, but I’m mostly not inspired to knit it. Using up all my sockyarn in 2011 means dealing with this, and so far this year I’ve done pretty good.
These socks were a particular challenge, and after trying 3 or 4 different patterns I ended up with a variation on a rib pattern. Every other pattern just got lost and this one at least went along pretty quickly. I’m not happy with this yarn (Opal bamboo), not because of the colour, but the bamboo makes the socks grow when I wear them. Hopefully they will shrink a little with washing, as most socks do, most people have bigger feet than me and will be happy to get a pair of socks 
Babyhat details
Some sockyarn is better off not becoming socks, in this case the yarn is so soft that it’s better to put it on a baby head. The rest of my Berroco comfort sock will be turning into baby garments as well. The only problem is that one hat takes up a surprisingly small amount of yarn…
