Mea Culpa

I've been knitting socks for a while now. It took me some time to catch the fever, but once I did, I found it to be quite the enjoyable little pastime. Practical, useful, artsy...and I fit in with all the "cool" knitters.

But I never really got all that excited about sock yarn. I tended towards the less costly version of the medium, dontcha know. I just couldn't seem to reconcile the twenty plus dollars with the fact that the yarn would spend it's days inside my shoes and under my cuffs. I never begrudged those who spent the dollars...but I wouldn't do it. If asked, I would have said that my frugal ways were my own and that others were perfectly within their rights to knit as they saw fit. I was quite the Ghandi of knitters...accepting of all and only asking for my rights as a sensible stitcher. Deep down, though, I suspect I may have harbored a wee bit of the "smug." "Look at those poor fools, spending their cash all willy-nilly on the same item I get for half what they are paying...hee hee!!!"

A few months back, I was the lucky winner of a skein of handpainted in a comment contest. Shortly thereafter, while in the grip of a 105 degree fever, I purchased some Koigu from a fellow blogger who was destashing. These have sat idle since their arrival in my home. They're pretty 'n all...but how much better can they really be?

I am now several inches into my new sock and all I have to say is this:

Oh. I see. My bad...

Wow!!!!

I stand before you a humbled Sheep. I wholeheartedly, unabashedly and with the deepest of sincerity withdraw any and all misanthropy towards the wicked nice sock yarn. I get it. I really do. It is better. It is worth every penny one might spend on it. It is permissible to sell certain valuables like jewelry or one's children in order that it be obtained. Assaults on other knitters who might stand in your way of purchasing it are forgivable.

It is just better.

Sadly, this realization comes at summer's end and just before The Sheep's salary goes through a three week "readjustment period." (this happens every few years to those of us who work a ten month schedule...you lose a pay period to even up the disbursement.) Now where am I going to find the cash to fund this new sock yarn obsession?

The cats are looking mighty nervous right now...

SA