Self-Striping Sock Yarn
I finished a project! The crochet baby blanket I was making for Michelle is finally done. There’s some weirdness going on there with the hood and the (incomplete) edging, but I decided I’m done with it, so I’m done.
You know what that means…according to my Diet, I get to start another project now! This is perfect, because I’ve been yearning to learn how to knit socks. I want to make a pair of plain socks for my first pair; no complicated stitch patterns or lace to mess with me while I’m learning to turn a heel. That means I want some snazzy yarn to make the socks fun. I’ve been thinking for a few days about what color combination to use. I generally wear a lot of blues and greens, but I wanted something different this time. I decided a peach-orange-burgundy-yellow combination would be awesome!
I ordered some blank superwash wool/nylon sock yarn from KnitPicks with my latest order (they had new tools, and I just had to try the modular blocking mats!) in 100 gram hanks. For this project, I doubled up one of the hanks so I would get two identically dyed balls (one for each sock) and then wound the doubled yarn into 5 connected mini skeins.
Well, I didn’t quite get peach (bottom right)…it came out a bit brighter orange than I’d hoped, but hey, it’s cool anyway! Also learned a valuable lesson about using bamboo skewers when dyeing. They’re great for dishing out color and stirring the dye, but don’t use them to handle the yarn! They grab the fibers. I’ll post pictures when I finish the post-processing of the yarn. I absolutely love the copper and burgundy colors. I think I’m going to use those together again soon.
Anyway, first step in sock knitting project complete! Yarn dyed. Now I just have to learn to actually knit the things!
Dyet Yarns blog posts by Adrian "Nuri" Steinhauer are licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-No Derivative Works 3.0 United States License.
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