For work, I get the privledge of getting to dress casually, so in fall, hand knit wool socks and wool vests are almost a uniform. This morning, after doing a load of laundry, I noticed that a pair of my Cherry Tree Hill socks (top row, third from left) had heels where the wool had worn completely away, and only the wooly nylon remained. Then, to my horror, tonight, I found a hole in a pair of my Dzined wool/hemp/mohair socks (bottom row, left). Two pairs in one day gone! I remember someone on her blog calling socks knitted ephemera, and she's right. I need to take stock quickly, because I have a few in progress that are mates or looking for a mate. An observation: all of the Regia socks I've made show practically no signs of wear.
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Since I haven't knit so very many socks, I worry about "blowout" each time I put a pair on. I know that they can't last forever, but it doesn't do any good just to "keep them for nice" either. (Such a weird expression, but I heard it so much growing up in Pennsylvania Dutch Country!) One must enjoy them while they last, I suppose!
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