Eye Candy - Sock Yarn

Here is a peek at some sock yarn that has come to live at my house. I just love knitting with this stuff. One of these days, I may even dye my own sock yarn like they do. It's Zauberball (made in Germany)by Schoppel... Love it!

2nd Knitted Hat Finished

 

My yummy alpaca/silk/wool sock yarn has made (so far) two knitted hats. This is the second one. I started it yesterday and finished today. I combined a twisted stitch and a rolled rim and then got out the crochet hook and did a popcorn stitch around the edge. So much yarn, so little time!

Sock Yarn

Don't you just love the feel, smell and colors of newly dyed sock yarn? You know, now is the time to start knitting those socks for Christmas presents. Better get crack-in!

Color to Dye For

60% Alpaca/15% Merino/15%silk/10%Nylon

 

Just a quick trip to the land of color! Which is the most fun? Dying or Knitting Socks??!?

Wrapped in plastic.

ONLY use this for dyeing!!!!! 4-5 minutes should do it.

 



Cool - they be hot!!

Let dry overnight. I now have 7 skeins of sock yarn ready to wind into balls.

 



Ball Winding

While working on the MidWest Weavers project, I saw I was about to run out of the conference yarn so I pulled out the trusty ball winder and wound me a ball. It's the brown ball shown here.

Since I had the ball winder out, I thought I would check and see if I had any more skeins that needed to be wound into balls. Well, I found a few. All this is sock yarn that I dyed back in September 2012.

Now not only do I have a secret project I am knitting, I have four more balls of sock yarn to work up too. I wonder if this will be a long cold winter. If so, I will be all set.

Believe it or not, all this yarn is mostly alpaca. The brown was 'grown' in Kansas and the white that I dyed was 'grown' in Rogersville, Missouri. Both yarns have Merino wool blended in, but the sock yarn has some silk too. Yummy!