a call for sock knitting help

We won't be talking about the woollen curtain for the front door for a while, okay? Once I had handsewn a band at the top, I proudly showed it to Favourite Handyman who couldn't ever remember agreeing to how I thought I had told him it would be. Then he got me to hold it up and it was too short and I remembered why I had been initially planning to use the purple double bed blanket and not the single bed cream(ish) one.

So that project is off the menu for the meantime.

And I miss having a piece of knitting on the go.

And in my drawer (or by the computer now) I have 100gms of sock wool. I found it at the Sallies. It is 3 ply sock yarn, in a nice slightly teal-y blue colour and it is New Zealand made. Called "Family", it was made by Alliance Textiles. It doesn't say where in NZ and I suspect that it was perhaps one of the last sock yarns to be made here - the label and brand suggest the 1980s to me. It is not possible to buy NZ-made sock yarn currently.

I don't want socks for my children. They are spoilt. I want socks for me. I've never made socks before, but I am a competent knitter given a basic pattern (as in nice, even stitching, not as in good at flash stitches and techniques). My google searching thus far has not turned up adult socks in 3 ply. I am figuring that if I could get the part up to my ankle done in 50gm of sock yarn per foot, then I could change needles and wool and finish the top bit in thicker wool. I have found a ball of Cleckheaton variegated wool which would do the trick in my drawer.

Any suggestions? I'm going to have a look at our local wool shop tomorrow but I don't think they stock much of a range of sock patterns. I've never knitted in 3 ply in my life before and got very grumpy when I did a 4 ply vest for Brighid. But I really want to use this wool. I am going to have feet this size for a long time so it doesn't matter hugely that it will be slow going.