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Showing posts with label stash yarn. Show all posts
Showing posts with label stash yarn. Show all posts
Monday, March 4, 2024
February Solo Sock Club
It turns out February kept me quite busy at my day job. Since only about 2 people read this blog, day job won out over blog posts. I did, however, finish my February socks a while back. The yarn I pulled for February was a self-striping yarn in an American flag pattern.
The yarn is from Artistic Yarn by Abi. Truth be told, this one has been in stash for a loooooooong time. I don't think she sells this pattern any longer; she may have changed her business name since I bought this yarn. That's one of the features of the Solo Sock Club, though - I get to use up amazing yarns that have been languishing in storage so long that I forgot I even owned them.
Because this is a self-striping yarn, I opted for a vanilla pattern to let the colors shine on this pair. I am very pleased that this yarn was pulled early in the year...recall that I didn't label the bags and I'm choosing them at random. I'm glad I will have the flag socks ready to go for Memorial Day and the 4th of July. I mean, I won't hesitate to wear them any time of year, but it's nice to have themed socks available when a holiday rolls around.
Stay tuned to see the March sock club yarn and pattern.
Saturday, January 6, 2024
Solo Sock Club
We are 6 days into 2024. On New Year's Day, I noticed this Instagram Post by the Yarn Harlot. She pulled 12 skeins of sock yarn from her stash and paired each one with an appropriate pattern, bagged them up and BOOM - she calls it her Self-Imposed Sock Club. This is such a GENIUS idea, and I cannot believe my luck that I saw it on the very first day of the year. I went to the basement, retrieved 12 forgotten favorites of sock yarn and then proceeded to my Ravelry favorites section and matched them up with patterns. I bagged mine up and put them under the Christmas tree.
In lieu of a subscription that will come once a month, I will simply grab a bag and get to work. Bonus, this idea also helps work down my stash of yarn that I already have, and it's budget friendly, too. I've collected all the bags on a wooden tray. My brother and sister-in-law sent us a Harry & David gift box for Christmas, and along with the goodies came this lovely little tray. I thought it would make the perfect spot to keep my makeshift sock club. Eventually, we will put the Christmas tree away, and I feel as though the tray is a place that provides a bit of organization to the project - and if it is determined to be "in the way" at a future point, the tray can be easily moved to a new home.
When I saw the original post and decided I wanted to do this also, I was mid-project on a pair of socks. I was determined to finish them ASAP so that I could dig into the first bag of my 2024 Sock Club. Never had a project FELT like it took so long. I did complete them yesterday, and immediately asked my husband to choose a bag for me. He graciously obliged, and I opened it to find this: This is a skein of yarn that was hand dyed by me and was originally dyed for my Etsy shop. It never did sell, but it was always a favorite of mine, so I pulled it for my sock club. This is the only skein out of the year that I dyed myself. It is a blend of 75% superwash merino and 25% nylon. The colorway is called Caramel Apple. It works up with short bursts of mini stripes in the contrast color. I'm nearly ready to turn the heel on the first sock. Due to the way that the colors in the yarn will work up, I opted for a vanilla sock pattern in this case. I find that in knitting projects, either the colors or the textures will pop. For yarn with lots of colors, a simple pattern will show them off. For a pattern with oodles of texture, a solid and light-colored yarn will really show off those pattern details. I am using a plain pattern here to allow the dye job to really shine in my finished socks. I will post the finished socks once they are finished. Follow along, as I will have updates on all of the monthly sock knits.
When I saw the original post and decided I wanted to do this also, I was mid-project on a pair of socks. I was determined to finish them ASAP so that I could dig into the first bag of my 2024 Sock Club. Never had a project FELT like it took so long. I did complete them yesterday, and immediately asked my husband to choose a bag for me. He graciously obliged, and I opened it to find this: This is a skein of yarn that was hand dyed by me and was originally dyed for my Etsy shop. It never did sell, but it was always a favorite of mine, so I pulled it for my sock club. This is the only skein out of the year that I dyed myself. It is a blend of 75% superwash merino and 25% nylon. The colorway is called Caramel Apple. It works up with short bursts of mini stripes in the contrast color. I'm nearly ready to turn the heel on the first sock. Due to the way that the colors in the yarn will work up, I opted for a vanilla sock pattern in this case. I find that in knitting projects, either the colors or the textures will pop. For yarn with lots of colors, a simple pattern will show them off. For a pattern with oodles of texture, a solid and light-colored yarn will really show off those pattern details. I am using a plain pattern here to allow the dye job to really shine in my finished socks. I will post the finished socks once they are finished. Follow along, as I will have updates on all of the monthly sock knits.
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