I wanted to use all of this lovely yarn in a pair of stripey socks, but to make it extra geeky I’m using dice to determine the placement & width of each stripe.

Materials:
I bought one of the mini skein palettes in Purple/Pink, so got 6 one-ounce skeins, in Other Mother (C13), Pink Cardium (Y080), Jewel Anemone (Y093), Dawn Dropwing (Y026), Purple Soldier Fly (C14), & Widow Dragonfly (Y026). You could easily do this with scraps of sock yarn and get the same effect. It would be a great stash-cleaning project.

Construction:
These are a basic toe-up sock done with stripes of each color. Thinking about a heel construction right now… thinking of a reverse round heel, but may change my mind. An afterthought heel would be the best for the stripe sequence, but I don’t like the way it fits on my foot.

My sock ended up 60 stitches around. It probably could do with a couple fewer stitches, but I’m pressing on. They just won’t be super snug socks.

The Setup:
Each color is assigned a number, I made tags and tied them to each ball to keep it straight. Tags tied to rubberbands might have been better, but I didn’t have any rubberbands. Sharpie-d numbers on ziploc bags would work too.

Find your dice. I’m using a 6-sided die (for my 6 colors) and an 8-sided die for the length of the stripes (I figured with the gauge of this yarn, I didn’t want a stripe more than say… 8 rows long. If you want longer stripes or are working at a finer gauge, find a 10, 12 or 15… etc… sided die). You can find crazy dice like these from any gaming store or a place where they sell Magic The Gathering or D&D supplies. I’m sure there are many places online too.

Start your sock, and GO! Don’t forget your shaping with all the crazy color changes!

My Rules:

1. I can re-roll the dice if the color rolled is the color I just finished. (i.e. If I just finished a stripe in color #3 and I roll a 3 on the 6-sided die I can re-roll it until I get a number that is not 3.)

2. Knit each stripe until the determined # of rows are worked, or until I run out of that color. If I roll a color that is used up, I can re-roll.

3. Keep both socks relatively the same length and knit them consecutively in small bits. This is what I normally do, but I think it’s particularly important for this project since I don’t want to finish one sock, then get to the second and find out I finished off one color way early and have hardly any of it in the second sock.