Quote Originally Posted by Randi View Post
And do stick to handwashing them - it's a crime not to.
I don't see that. I made them and I paid for them, I can do whatever I want with them, is how I see it. I suspect my unconscious mind goes something like 'the hot cycle is nature's way of making sure you always have excuses to knit'. Without having to make a formal decision to toss. In other words, it's a cull

My problem is I invent stuff. I kind of start with a general thought and then make it up on the fly while I'm working on it. So anything I make I have to wear for myself at least for a while to see if it looks okay because I don't entirely trust my own mind. I tend to do things out of sheer curiosity, not always for aesthetic reasons. And I don't want to be that mad knitter lady who foists weird-looking stuff onto people they're humiliated to wear. But then if it does look fine, I don't feel right about giving away something I've already worn. I may have to move to Antartica one of these days to justify my habit.

The yarn in the first two links is just what I would buy, I love alpaca!
I've never done it before. I've been such a merino girl for so long, and then for some strange reason I can't account for I've started branching out suddenly into all these larney fibres that aren't really my thing. I am strictly a jeans-tshirt-and-runners person. I just kind of got bored with plain wool.

Oh socks... I have not knitted those for years, but if I get started, I think I'll remember how to do the heel. Those wollen socks are good to have a cold winter night.
I am completely socks. Socks started me knitting again about six years ago after a 20-year layoff, because I bike to work. And perversely, I like biking in winter instead of summer and do it more often then. So the quest for warm socks became all-consuming, and once I'd made my first pair I was a total, proselytizing convert to wool. I've been slowly working on a dastardly subversion plan to get one pair of wool socks on every pair of feet I work with, so others will See The Light and become fanatics as well.

Welcome to PT!
Thank you