by Joy | Aug 30, 2022 | 4ply yarns, colour inspiration, knitting, knitting techniques, mini skeins, patterns
Over the last few weeks I’ve been knitting with tweed yarn – and it’s fair to say I’m smitten. Our tweed yarn is a 100% British Bluefaced Leicester wool with dark flecks of tweed though it. They add a more rustic finish to the yarn. I wanted to...
by Joy | Jan 7, 2022 | knitting, knitting techniques
One of the questions I get asked a fair bit is if there’s enough yarn in a set of mini skeins to make socks. Our smaller sets of mini skeins have 80 grams and either 320m or 340m of yarn depending on the base. If you crochet – the answer is probably not....
by Joy | Sep 15, 2020 | 4ply yarns, knitting techniques, self striping sock yarn
There’s something about self striping sock yarns that lends itself perfectly to vanilla socks. Watching the stripes grow in a pleasingly regular repeat makes it easy to work just a round or two more. Simple. And yet very satisfying. Our self striping sock yarns...
by Joy | Jun 7, 2020 | 4ply yarns, knitting, knitting techniques
One of the delights of knitting socks is that they’re a great way to use skeins of wildly variegated yarns. Most of a sock is made up of a tube that doesn’t change in width, so the colours can repeat in a pattern through the leg and the foot. If you want that pattern...
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