So you got a lovely batt and spun it up. Maybe you got two or three. You have at least 100 grams of lovely yarn and it really wants to be something awesome, but … what does it want to be?

Perhaps what it wants to be is a pair of socks.

Well, sure, you say, but did I make “sock yarn”? What if my yarn is thicker than the usual stuff you get for socks? What if I’m not sure I have enough for socks? Will I run out partway through the second sock? How do I know how many stitches to cast on when I’m using non-standard yarn?

Fear not, brave knitter, Frazzlehead’s Handspun Sock Recipe addresses all these problems.

This is, however, a Recipe (it’s really more of a guideline than an actual code…) and it’s probably going to work best if you’ve already knit a sock or two from predictable yarn and predictable patterns. The Recipe does assume that you know how to knit in the round with either two circular needles or a set of DPNs. You will also be happiest if you are comfortable taking out a few rounds of work and picking up the stitches to start where you left off – this is a guided-trial-and-minimal-error sort of recipe rather than a do-the-math-up-front-hope-you-get-it-right-and-knit sort of recipe.

Consider it a self-swatching sock. :)