Socktober – Self striping yarns Part II October 22, 2008
A continuation from Part I – some of my favorite self striping sock yarns
The last two of my favorite self-stripers hold their own with creative color combos that always look good to me.
Photo courtesy of flickr user Wannabeknittin’
Take sknitches for example. Yes, I am clearly a fan of blue and brown, but don’t these socks look so good? Sknitches also has a wide array of non-striping yarn in beautiful colorways, so if you order from her site, you can get a great mix of sock yarns in fabulous colors.
Photo by Flickr user Wooly interlude
Some of the first handmade self-striping yarn that I ever heard about was Vesper sock yarn. As a spinner, the shop’s curator also has a beautiful assortment of hand-dyed roving. It can still be kind of a challenge to snag the sock yarn, but it seems like there are shop updates many Wednesdays, and the Ravelry Group can a be a useful guide to shop stalking.
Speaking of ravelry groups…. a long time ago I started a Ravelry group for those that love stripes – Better with stripes. Pop on over and say ‘Hi’ if self-striping yarn is your sort of thing.
Gorgeous! I’ve always wanted some Sknitches, but have never been able to get my hands on some.
Sknitches is really cool. I have two skeins of Julia’s sock yarn in my stash that I was eyeing this morning, actually.
Wow- those are some gorgeous self striping yarns! I guess I hadn’t really spent much time thinking about self striping yarn because the typical colorways and fine stripes really aren’t me. These wide stripes are fabulous!
Those are all great examples of self-striping yarn! Lovely