Sure, you could make socks with sock yarn, but then making a shawl is also a great option. Lace work with sock yarn goes quickly.
One pattern that I’ve gone back to a few times is Forest Canopy
And sometimes you can just make it up as you go along.
Recipe for triangle shawls usually involve making 4 stitches each right side row, purling the wrong side.
This is an “ish” pattern:
CO 7 stitches (right side-rs)
K1, p til 1 st left, k1 (wrong side – ws) repeat for all even rows *
K1, Yo, k2, yo, pm for center stitch, k1tbl, yo, k2, yo, k1 (rs)
Repeat the two rows 10 times
Knit a wrong side row
K1, yo, k2tog, until 1 before the marker, yo, ktbl, yo, k2tog, yo until the last st, k1 (rs)
Knit all stitches (ws)
Repeat * until it’s big enough
Bind off
And out of handspun
