Sock yarn for soakers?

[Astoria]

Is there any way I can make a soaker out of sock yarn? It's 100% merino.

If I do it straight, like making a large size with a smaller yarn/smaller gage, I'll get a small/newborn size. But will it be too thin a fabric?

What if I use it double? Does that work? It seems like a bulky, somewhat inflexible fabric when I swatched it double. I could go up a needle size or two over what I thought. But I'm worried I'd run out of yarn.

Anyone have experiences with this?

[flapjack]

I've seen a pair of longies on ravelry knitted with Kauni, which is fingering weight- they were knitted flat in garter stitch. I actually really like that idea, of garter stitch at a tight gauge, because you'd get a dense but somewhat flexible fabric.

I'd get knitting swatches and seeing what you think.

[Astoria]

That's an interesting idea, totally hadn't thought of that.

I'm leaning toward doing it double stranded. I've been swatching and I think it's too dense, I'll have to go up needle sizes, but I like what it does to the very low key varigation.

[frogger]

just make sure it's not superwash!

[cristeen]

I did a LTK Ribby Wrap with a really light weight wool (slightly heavier than fingering, but not quite sport weight). I stitched up the XL numbers, and wound up with maybe a M size. It's not heavy enough for night-time, but I think it'll be just fine during the day.