Big Lots has yarn, part 2

Here's the socks I made from the yarn that someone on Ravelry declared "I had that exact same yarn but mine wasn't wool" because, as we all know, monitors reproduce colors so accurately that she could tell hers was exactly the same, not to mention how frequently yarn companies produce the same colorway in two yarn fiber types (Noro does, I think, but not many others). Oh, and then that yarn is sold in western PA and out west (Wyoming or Montana, I'm not sure) in Big Lots. And it just so happens that the one person who is arguing that Big Lots doesn't sell wool yarns also just happens to be that one person who bought that yarn. Believable? Not to me.

I made one pair from Cookie A.'s Monkey sock pattern from knitty and the second pair from a pattern I downloaded when it was free: An Easier heel by Helena Bristow.

Five People You'll Meet

1. The self-styled knitting maven. She claims to know 57 varieties of cast on techniques, an equal number of ways to bind off, and the best way to do a left leaning decrease on the purl side of stockinette knit using Eastern combined knitting, but strangely, most of her projects are  hats.
2. The hard core yarnographer. She admits to petting her yarn and  having "yarngasms".  'Nuff said. It's yarn, not your sexual partner.
3. The yarn snob. She equates her worth and yours with what you knit with. Natural fibers are of course the best, but the true yarn snob will sneer at your Brown Sheep Worsted and announce that domestic yarn just isn't the same as imported.
4. The One-True-Way knitter. Hers. Everyone else is doing it wrong.
5. The magic loop fanatics. For them, magic loop is THE answer to everything. Best way to knit socks? Magic loop. Best way to avoid ladders? Magic loop.  Meaning of life? Magic loop.

Big Lots has yarn!

Big Lots has had yarn before. I still have the Red Heart Maypole I bought in Jacksonville, FL in the early 90s! I'm not that slow of a kntter, just a hoarder in training. But the yarn that they have now is mis-labelled (intentionally?) and I've found some really nice wool sock yarn. Even if some crazy bitch on Ravelry insisted that the yarn in my photo was not wool:"I bought that same yarn and mine wasn't wool". Just one more reason why I left Ravelry: crazy bitches who will argue with you over the truly stupidest things.

Anyhow, I'm finishing my second pair with the green yarn that IS wool. Pictures will follow.