Hello and welcome to the Yarniaks podcast.

This is episode 32, which we are recording on Friday, March 22nd.

I'm Gail.

And I'm Charlene.

And what are you wearing today?

I'm going to talk about my socks today. And I was telling

Gail that even though I often wear socks, well pretty much all winter, I wear my wool socks,

but I have very rarely spoken about them on the podcast, even though they are often on my feet

or in my drawer or out or getting

washed. Socks, my wool socks are worn a lot. And I haven't been knitting as many socks

for the past couple of years because my sock drawer has been full. I go through phases where I fill the sock drawer,

then I wear them for a few years, and then they all start to wear out, and then I'll have to

refill the sock drawer. But today, I am wearing a pair of socks called Rose's socks, and they

were written by Grump Arena, and they are from an older IK interweaved knits

spring 2007 mine are knit in a trekking XXL yarn which is one of my favorite sock

yarns for two reasons I think it's out of all the sock yarns that I've used,

it's probably the longest lasting sock yarn. My socks made out of trekking tend to last much longer

than other socks. And then the second reason, because I really like the gauge that I get with it.

I think I've knit so many socks out of trekking that it's just very easy for me.

I always knit it in a 2mm needle, which is a US size zero.

And I generally don't swatch.

I just knit and go on the socks because I've knit so many.

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