Socks on the Brain
I really want to experiment with different techniques for knitting socks, but summer convention season is coming up. Since I also sell geekery-related items at anime/sci-fi cons, I have to put aside my obsessive knitting for a bit and focus on making stock for the other business. I have a little less than 2 months to stock up for 2 shows, and all my items are handmade. Which is fine…except that I can’t stop looking at sock yarn!
Etsy has some lovely hand-dyed and hand-painted skeins. A lot of the colors I like are pure wool and don’t have nylon in the mix, which makes me sad. However, they’re still super pretty!
The only good thing is that hand-dyed yarn is so expensive that I can easily justify not buying it yet. Especially since I don’t have the time to knit it and I’m on a yarn diet! For now, I will dye my own sock yarn and use that for my experimental learning time. After all, I still have 100 g of bare sock yarn to work with before I go out and buy more. Ah well…a girl can dream!
Dyet Yarns blog posts by Adrian "Nuri" Steinhauer are licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-No Derivative Works 3.0 United States License.
Tags: conventions, diet, dyeing, Etsy, geek, handmade, hoarding, selfish, socks, stash, wool, yarn
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