Sock yarn, as its name implies, is generally made from standard yarn. However, sock yarn can be made from virtually any form of fiber, such as wool or nylon.
It will depend on the type of yarn. 225 yards of worsted weight yarn is about 100g, but 225 yards of sock weight yarn is about 25g. What is the yarn type?
Your answer depends on who you're knitting socks for -- how they will be worn and washed.
The materials needed for knitting socks include the proper size knitting needles and yarn. There are many different types of yarn to choose from including wool sock knit yarn, hand dyed yarn, acrylic yarn, and cotton yarn.
Sock monkeys are made from yarn. It is knitted into a pattern, then the pieces are attached together and stuffed. The yarn is generally cotton or acrylic. You can find many free patterns online that teach you how to make them out of already made socks as well.
You have to make best friends with the old lady that lives by the mayer, and a week before Christmas, give her a ball of yarn, she'll make you a sock.
Yarn Maker Your sheep can be sheered to collect Wool, and you can convert that Wool into balls of Yarn for shipping or for giving as gifts. You will need a ball of yarn if you want a sock knitted for the Stocking Festival on Winter 25. So you will need to unlock the 3rd mine to get a ball of yarn
Perhaps you are referring to sport weight yarn? It's 5-ply, so a little thicker than sock yarn. It usually produces 12 wraps per inch.
There is no hard and fast number that I could give you as an answer. It all depends on what the yarn is made of, what "weight" the yarn is (sock versus bulky, for example). So, as asked, this isn't really an answerable question--there is too much unknown about your yarn to answer with any certainty. My best suggestion would be to go to the yarn manufacturers website and look there for your answer. Or, go back to where you purchased the yarn, and ask there.
Yes, #1 (Or super-fine, sock, fingering, baby) and embroidery yarn are the smallest that I know of. Try going to a craft store, they ususaly have a larger selection of yarn than any other store, like walmart, kmart, etc, would have.
The number of plies is independent of the weight or fiber content of the yarn. It is possible to have a single ply super bulky like Brown Sheep's Burly Spun, or something like the 8 ply fingering weight on my sock needles right now. If you want to know the plies in a specific yarn, we'd need to know the brand name and yarn name.
Some good yarn craft ideas for adult beginners are things like tea cozies, iPod socks (this is a sock made specially for an iPod to keep it from getting scratched).