My Phydlbitz Sock yarn comes on cones, from which I pull 4-ounce hanks.  I can get 8 hanks from each cone, which leaves barely an ounce of yarn remaining.  Technically, I  could just tie on a new strand and keep building hanks, but I really, Really, REALLY do not like knots in yarn.

I know knots happen, and I know that the “industry standard” is to allow up to 8 knots in a pound of yarn (or 2 knots per skein).  But I still resist including knots in the yarns I send out.  Knots are more easily dealt with when knitting with a solid color yarn, but most of my yarns are decidedly not solids, most of the time.

So, I have all these tiny bits of sock yarn base — an overflowing box of cones.

I don’t want to pitch them into the trash, so I’m trying to figure what to do with them.  My biggest decision is whether to knit (or crochet) with three strands at a time, joining new yarn when one strand runs out as I pull from 3 separate cones, or chain-ply as I work from a single cone at a time.

Another but lesser question is what to create.  The actual cones weigh about an ounce or ounce-and-a-half, not counting the yarn still on the cone.  I think the absolute easiest would be to work up a giant granny square, totally mindless handwork.

One thing I will not do is try to sell these remainder cones, nor will I tie the yarns together into knotty hanks.