Mini Cakes

As I've been cleaning and organizing my house this month, I've become increasingly enamored with my yarn winder. Every slightly deflated skein of yarn needs to be rewound into a neat little yarn cake. Half skeins of sock yarn become mini cakes with the whirl of the winder. Check out my mini-cake sock yarn collection ....What will I do with mini-cakes of sock yarn? Make mini socks of course! I love Ann Budd's Better-Than-Booties Baby Socks and sock yarn remnants are perfect for them. Here's my most recent pair ...I think they'll be gifted with the baby blanket in a few weeks. I just found out that the baby is actually due Feb 6, so I'd better get moving on the blanket. I finally took the time to learn how to use duplicate stitch to weave in ends from this great tutorial on Knitty. I don't know why it took me so long to figure this out and right now I'm pretty ashamed of my weaving techniques on past gifts.