... 'm setting a multi-year goal of ending the year with less sock yarn than I started with at the beginning of the year. Over the next few weeks I'll be ... and others that would work well with variegated handdyeds. Since I won't be buying yarn for my vacation knitting I'll be continuing to collect more non-sock yarn patterns over the next 5 weeks. Can you believe Christmas is only 5 ...

... for the decrease rows. I think this is a very fun hat. I have another skein of this yarn and I think I’ll make a skinny scarf to match. There is ... ;ll likely change it up, like I do everything else. I doubt I’ll ever knit another hat with sock yarn as it takes a long time to knit, but I do like the patterning that the yarn provides. One more thing, “It ain’t easy being the ...

... yarn arrived in Tuesday's mail. Since it's all sock yarn, from Loopy Ewe, of course, it doesn't count towards ... WEARING these socks, I have no intention of knitting more to sit in his sock drawer or next to his chair. I think he likes the idea of them more than the actual ... 't know if it will be suitable for January weather. Back to the yarn bag: stretched across the top is CTH solid ...

... send even small items to the USA, money which I could spend on more yarn for homegrown charities. All this leads to my latest acquisition, Slackford Studio sock yarn.  Marguerite had three skeins of this lovely wool ... could suit and I know there are plenty of others around.  I'm putting the yarn to the back of my mind because I can't start them right now.  Usually ...

... ventured over to Fun Knits on Quadra Isalnd today.  Here's a couple pictures of my favourite part of the store, the sock yarn walls.  Sock/fingering weight definitely comprises the largest part of my stash, and I'm particularly loving all the small shall patterns springing up lately that uses this weight of yarn.  

I know I need more sock yarn like the proverbial hole but I spotted this on Etsy and couldn't resist. It's hand dyed superwash Blue-faced Liecester, ... blend socks from Bendigo Woollen Mills. They don't advertise that they sell sock yarn, so you have to hope they have it when you're there. I am also knitting the sleeveless shell out of silk/rayon blend. It's knit in the round in ...

... like my socks to match my clothes. I have other skeins of hand-dyed sock yarn in purples and pinks. I don’t exactly know why I’m attracted to this shade. Fuschia was my favorite crayon color when I was little ... shades that I will wear. No doubts! One is already wound in preparation for sock project #2. I looked at the three unwound skeins and after careful deliberation ...

We just ordered a whole slew of Malabrigo sock yarn to refill our sad and nearly-empty Malabrigo sock bin and it arrived today! The shelf is happy again. clockwise from top left: Chocolate Amargo, Eggplant, Natural, Stonechat, Lettuce, Ochre, Terracotta, Botticelli Red, Cordovan

... colourway Vatican Pie, 2 skeins of ShiBui Sock colourway Chinese Red, and Madelinetosh Tosh ... resist buying these yarns when I had the chance to feel the yarn and see the colours IRL. Do you think I love red? As a small ... set up for knitting an haute couture collection ;) Here it is: And all in sock yarn! Alas, it's only 136 g ... .e. +17% on the Sock Yarn O-Meter II. That leaves the poor O-Meter ...

... so I've listed those today. I've not dyed any yarn this week so only a small update today of forgotten sock yarn. The good news is they've all been listed in ... here's a taster. Angel sock yarn Kiwi: Angel sock yarn girlfriend - I love this ... colourway called weekend away which is very similar. Super Merino Sock Navy Stripes - another one of my faves: This is November's ...

... time I stumbled across an obscure independent German yarn dyer? Her site was cute and she had amazing colors. ... scalper prices for it on Ebay. It seems that only the recession has been enough to bring her yarn back into the realm of imagination. Some of her least popular colors are now being sold second hand for $40 per skein of sock yarn. There have been other rushes on popular yarns. Remember ...

... waited patiently... ...until I yanked them out, stuck one in an envelope and the other on the swift. It took a while for the sock-a-long to get started given other projects going on and general busyness of life. It was on ... and I had given up hope of finishing the baby blanket any time soon. The sock yarn was calling to me and it would have been rude not to answer. Here's all I have so ...

... this point I have knit the exact same number of stitches on each sock.  They are the same number of stitches around and the same number of rows in ... pattern in these colors. You can't tell in the picture because of the light but this yarn is Penny colored.  I love that especially since its called ... Spun Up Superwash Wool Nylon Sock Yarn in what I am calling pile of fallen leaves.  ...

... put more base stitches, whereas with a yarn like sock yarn or baby yarn you can use fewer. There's a bit ... crochet hook that will work well with your chosen thread/yarn. Next, put your hook through an opening in the knit near the top ... loop through the two loops already on the hook. Continue like this all the way around the top of the sock. You'll end up with single crochet around the top ...

... , superimposed over whatever I was knitting, a cabled sunspot of a memory. It was a sock pattern from a book I don't have and don't want to buy. I ... I realized it was something I couldn't ignore and that the purply-pink yarn I had been toting around since mid-summer might serve to replicate it. ... hadda stick a cable into it. (Brown Sheep Wildfoote sock yarn and Nancy Bush's Diagonal ...