Knitting WIP #5 is technically to do the 3 mystery sock projects I kitted up years ago. Years ago, I would buy beautiful single skeins of yarn. Mainly to support the yarn dyers that I was watching on YouTube. Most of the yarn was beautiful and to use those single skeins I learned to knit socks. That was around 2016-2020 and I started with Knitting Expat’s sock a month challenges. She would sell these bundles and every other month for a year we would get a new sock pattern. Then I bought Curious Handmade’s sock pattern bundles and I also bought Knitting Gnome’s sock pattern bundles. St. Mungos’ came from Knitting Gnome. Anyway as with every craft I do, I have to have lists and tricks to get myself going. If I finish a project with nothing next to do, I easily get stuck unable to move on to something else. And how I tricked myself into continuing on with my annual sock knitting goals was to kit up sock projects. Around November of each year, I would choose the 12 sock yarns I wanted to knit. I would lay them out with different project bags. Then I would go through the sock patterns I had accumulated over the years and decide which yarn I’d like to knit the pattern with. Then I’d put the yarn and that pattern into the bag, attach a number to it and put them all into a basket to be picked through later. And as each sock got finished, I would have my kids, hubby, or my phone pick a random number and that would be the next sock to knit. It was great. But as my hand knit sock collection grew and my desire to do different kinds of knitting grew, my sock knitting dwindled down until I forgot about it. Currently I only knit socks while travelling. They are great travel projects and I love to make “vanilla” socks (basically knitting with no pattern) toe up. In addition to being great travel projects, this method is a great way to use up left over skeins. The two sock tubes I recently added afterthought heels to were made this way.

And now, with this Great Move, I have 3 kitted up sock projects left from that time. And I randomly grabbed one to start. It happens to be St. Mungo’s by Knitting Gnome Crafts using my all time favorite yarn, Voolenvine.

I do not know if Knitting Gnome is still designing but at the time she made several sock patterns in the Harry Potter theme and I bought a sock pattern bundle of some sort. I remember her socks were more pointed than I like so I have to remember to not follow the pattern for the toe.

The yarn is still my favorite hand dyer Voolenvine and I’m thrilled to be knitting with her lusciousness. It’s “Feyre” in her Wolke yarn. Obviously the dyer was really into A Court Of Thorns and Roses (ACOTAR) hence the name of the yarn. And Wolke base is 80/10/10 Superwash Merino, Cashmere, Nylon (or commonly known as MCN). It’s the cashmere that makes this yarn so luscious and one of my favorite yarns to knit with.

Voolenvine sells out quickly and I used to set an alarm for whenever her shop was re-stocked. I’d have to be online and ready with what I wanted. I’d have to refresh my screen so that as soon as the items I’d want were available I would put it in my cart and buy what I could. In those days her stuff would sell out in 15 minutes. She would put out a newsletter a day or two before with everything scheduled to be in the shop so I would have my list ready and I was generally looking for anything Wolke. My pocketbook would be happy on those days when there weren’t any Wolke listed.

Here’s my current Knitting WIP to do list:

1. finish burying the ends of the last fingerless mitten – Done 9/2025
2. Take a picture of my GardenGate sweater. It’s not finished until this is done.
3. finish repairing the sock that Willow chewed up – Done 9/2025
4. Add heels to 2 sock tubes- DONE 9/2025
5. 3 kitted sock projects in whatever order I feel like knitting them in
   • St. Mungo’s – started now 9/2025
6. go through the 2 bins of yarn projects. From memory, the yarn is set aside but some may have a pattern name with it, but most probably do not. I doubt any of them have actual patterns with the project unless I bought the project kit as it was.
7. LONG TERM: go through my stash. give away what I no longer want to knit and re-stash what I want to keep

I’m starting one of the three mystery socks from #5 but I’ll need to write up a new list soon.

Knit on friends,

Melanie