Menokreatikkul; Saturday Stitches

I teased you on Thursday with a slightly off-the-wall image... it involved some camo-adjacent looking yarn. 

It's Hobbii Silly Socks, 75% superwash Merino, 25% polyamide, and it worked up dreamily. As you can tell from the swatch shots, I worked it quite tightly on a size 4mm ... Tunisian hook. Yup, not knitted, as you might think from that 'right side' - only the reverse side indicates something different. This is, though, called the knit stitch in Tunisian style crochet - for obvious reasons!

I bought the yarn in a large order from Hobbii a few years ago. It's been waiting. When my siblings were here and saw the jumper I made Mac1, I offered if they wanted anything. Mac2 sorted through the various mini-scarves and opted for the long turquoise one with the curly ends. Mac3 spotted this yarn peeking out of one of my many bags of stash, and I could see he was taken with it. He likes to wear neck gaiters (or buffs, as he calls them), so I set to it. It will get posted to him for his birthday at the end of the month. 

Being sock yarn, it's a fingering-weight skein with wonderful loft. It's also very warm. Working with a quality yarn like this is pleasing beyond words. Above you see the finished item in its full 'buff' mode. On Thursday, I showed how it could be brought up balaclava-style for the more wintry weather. It can be rolled so that it is not quite so bulky around the neck, displaying the reverse side, which I think is as attractive a stitch pattern as the standard knit look.

In that same folded formation, it makes a decent headband, too... and then, of course, I couldn't resist checking out its "toque potential"!

I quite like that French Revolutionary dangle! I will be working something like this again for myself because I found myself wanting to keep wearing it. I don't have that same yarn (although I could order it... but no... stash overload!)

Anyway, there's another use for sock yarn you don't want to make socks with!