This was a sock of the month from Blackberry Ridge Woolen Mill, a family owned spinnery in Wisconsin. The colors are handpainted spring meadow and hand painted checkers. They do custom spinning and carding of your fiber. I love supporting this home industry. http://www.blackberry-ridge.com/ They have a large selection of very cool and reasonably priced sock patterns. They have lots of patterns for just about everything. They have an open house coming up in November.
Rainbow Socks Sock Kit
This was my second pair of hand knit socks. I doubted I would be able to knit them as they looked so complicated. They are not. They were designed by Candance Eisner Strick of http://www.strickwear.com/
using Koigu handpainted yarn. I love these socks and it is very hard to keep them in the new pile.
As it happens this modest sock kit led to a major purchase of Koigu handpainted yarn and solids – to be paired together in original designs. The dark solid makes the colors pop. I confess, I have enough sock yarn for more than 2 dozen pairs.
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