I promised a photo of the new sock yarn, so here goes. I ran across this yarn on somebody’s blog some time back, and after a bit of dithering, decided that I needed to have some in the stash. It’s from Rohrspatz & Wollmeise, a German fiber company. Check out that link. If you click on the yarn blobs, you’ll get to the fiber section. There’s a little link on the bottom for “englisch”, in case you don’t speak German.
I emailed the owner, Claudia, and within a matter of hours had an order ready to go. I ordered several different colors of the sock yarn (as long as the boat was sailing this way, you know), and as soon as I finished the Easter Egg socks from the last post, had this one on the needles. Claudia couldn’t have been nicer to work with. Though her website doesn’t have a shopping cart set up, it was no trouble to email back and forth until we got it together. The only real trouble that I had with the order was deciding which colors to get. I really want them all.
Her yarn colors come in three intensities, and the stuff I bought was “medium”. This one is called Krauterbeet, which I readily admit, I bought simply because of the name. And how can you not like purple and green together?
There was a little mishap with the ball winder and swift, which is totally not Claudia’s fault. I readily admit to a measure of operator error in this one. I ended up winding the whole hank by hand, then rewinding it with the ballwinder into 2 equal cakes.
Click on that to get an idea of how lovely the yarn is.
And here’s the beginning of my sock. It should be no surprise to anyone what pattern I’m using.
In fundraising news, Claudia is doing her annual bicycle ride to raise money for the National MS Society. She’s already very close to her original goal of $20,000 ($20,000 all from knitters, people!), and has raised the bar to $30,000, with the deadline on June 25th. Go donate, if you haven’t already. If you do, you will help some folks who really need it. If you don’t, who knows, you just might have very bad karma for the rest of the year. At the very least, you’ll feel guilty if you don’t send her money. And if we can afford blogs and yarn, we can afford a few bucks for a good cause, right?
I’m off to pack. I’m going on a little surprise trip for the weekend, so I can’t say where. Now, what knitting to take?
Gorgeous! I want some. I really need to try my hand at the picot edging. So cute.
Love that yarn – lucky I have my own personal German translator (grin) – someday I’ll try a picot top. I love the way they look.
Do you find that they stay up without ribbing?
I’m new to your blog….I don’t know which pattern you’re using for that lovely sock with the picot edge…do you do it the usual way with the y/0’s and folded hem? Or is there an easier way.
I love me some purple. And the hubby’s fav colors are green and purple. I have to stop myself from buying every green/purple yarn I see.
Have fun!
🙂
I’m trying to stay away from that website. I’m past SABLE on the sock yarn.