Thrilled to have found a Lemmy knitting group! I'm a sock obsessive, I just love knitting socks, so I've ended up with an staggering amount of "scrap" yarn. The solution - blankets. This is my second Cosiest Memories project and this time I have a Plan. The first one was truly random, with lots of placement errors. When it was finished I did a dark icord edge, and suddenly it was smart!
So for the second one I'm adding an inner border of that same colour and (eventually) will finish with icord. I might even knit some more socks!
Generally "sock yarn" tends to be fingering weight (US) / 4-ply (UK) / whatever they call it in other parts of the world. And it'll generally include something like nylon or similar to make it more hard wearing, too.
Most of it is superwash merino, you can throw it in the washing machine.
Ah that makes sense, I think I skimmed the "sock" part to mean "scrap from former sock projects" rather than "sock yarn". I know you generally make socks from sock yarn but, you never know!