Desk and socks

What socks do on my desk? Oh, well, a bunch of UFO-s are lying around, and this is just a roundup of what is around my writing desk (yeah, I have a fairly big one.) Note that these are all made from various sockyarn... I guess it isn't just a chance.

Mind you, this is not all unfinished stuff I have, nor these are the only ones I actively work on. I still have stuff in my bags, beside my bed, etc.

Do you want to see them one by one? Shall I tell you what they are? 

This is a pair of fair isle patterned mitts. Over the summer I knitted a crazy amount of solid colored knee high stockings (more on them in a later post), and there was a moment when the urge to knit something crazy difficult, and colorful stuff washed over me. The pattern is from Matthew Gnagy's knitting book, the shape is rather historical, the pattern is also have a romathic mood. The thing is I have no idea, what will happen to it, once I finish it, because as much as I love it, I don't really wear brown and orange anymore (I kept putting around the two balls were pinned together, for years - yes, it was my favorite, when I had the red hair, but is does not go with my silver), nor do I like the mitts that does not have separate fingers. 

This is some socks, from small bits of leftover yarn, my usual stuff, nothing specific. I've started it in the summer, I remember knitting on it in Kapolcs, where there was an art and music festival, but it kind of fell victim of the stocking craze.

This is... well, you all know, I have a fascination with colorful sockyarn. It might have occured that I like to mix and match them. I like to organize them into bunches, put them together in certain order (like the almost rainbow colored circle cardigan, or by colors, like the purplish neckwarmer. I keep looking for ways to use up these bits. I had a run with a "boxy sweater", which was not overly successful, which was entirely my fault, so I decided to give it another chance. Went to my stash, and picked a bunch of pink-ish colored bits and see, where it takes me.

Now, this will be a pair of socks. We've been to the Netherlands this fall, and on the way home we stopped at Prague (shall I write more about those?), and from there a pair of purple boots camme home with me... and you know me, if I have purple boots, I need purple socks. And purple everything. The yarn had no band (yeah, second hand stuff), but it looks and feels awesome, I have a suspicion that it is Opal, or similar. I added puplish blue toe and heel, to have it as high as possible, and I only have one half done, yet.

Beige-y? Sandish? Taupe? Tan? knee high historical soks, only a few rows done.

More historical stockings, this is from mustard colors and will have a clock on the ankle.

And finally, because it is almost done, my usuall crazy-leftover neckwarmer. This is the fourth (I guess) I've knitted, and still not bored of it. Or I am sometimes, but this is what I have in the car for "Blind Knitting", meaning that late night in dark roads, when I have nothing else, I knit on these. I need to sew the ends up and it is done, will post more detailed pictures. 

 Do you love sockyarns as much as I ? Do you use them for other things than just socks?