my sister's socks

My dear sister loves it when I make her socks. She has always been a grateful recipient of my socks, so I am happily on the look-out for yarn that she might like.

At last year's NYS sheep and wool fest in Rhinebeck, I found this:

Supersoft merino sock yarn. The colors were unlike any I've seen. My sister loves sunflowers, and this colorway looked to me like a field of sunflowers under a blue and white Bavarian sky.

As I was knitting with it, and looking at the label again, I realized that the yarn was NOT superwash. I debated with myself, and debated some more.... and then decided that while I do not mind handwashing knitted items, and neither does my sister, socks are not one of them. That's where I draw the line.

So I finally, reluctantly, pulled the needles from this sock, and begun a pair with my own handdyed. One of the first sock yarn skeins I ever did.

Vastly different in color.

They came out OK, and she loves them.

That's all that counts.

My sock yarn, which is 80% superwash merino and 20% nylon, is now available at Trumpet Hill. It is called Periwinkle Sheep watercolors sock yarn. I dye it so that stitch patterns won't get lost in it...also, it is suitable for lace projects.

It has been selling steadily, so I am off to dye more!!

Have a great weekend, everyone.