May 02 2007
Sock Fiber Blending
About a month or so ago a few of us trekked up to The Fold, we of course purchased but-loads of yarn (I got the yarn for the PTBNL’s Blanket). While I was there, I was asking Toni about fibers she might recommend for spinning sock yarn, and I ended up going a little overboard.
Ultimately she said I would have to see what I liked best and of course I walked out the door with a whole variety of stuff to try:
- Superwash Merino
- Blue Faced Leicester (although now I wish I had waited, I found a source for *Superwash* BLF)
- Targhee
- Cultivated Silk Top
- Kid Mohair Locks
- Tencel
- more silk (I decided I needed more)
- blending nylon
- Bamboo
- cotton
- Black Diamond
And last weekend at the Stephenson County Fiber Fair I added
I am going to split it all up into sections and card it and run test batches. I will actually need a bit more superwash merino to get it all done, but I can get that later. I have already split up the first purchases into weighed, bagged batches of SWM/BFL/KidM0 and SWM/BLF/Silk etc. Now the carding will commence - I REALLY wish I had a drum carder.
There should be enough in each batch to knit a pair of socks (assuming I don’t flub the spinning and plying). I am planning on spinning them all in their natural colors, and then dyeing them. Eventually I’ll have time to turn them all into socks and see how they knit and wear, and hopefully by then I’ll know something about *my* ideal composition for sock yarn 
One Response to “Sock Fiber Blending”
Holy cow!
you’re turning into a maniac. Not that this is a bad thing. but wow!
I’m looking at you spinning the yarn for at least ten pairs of socks just to figure out what you like? Who gets all the socks? When do you plan to be done?
suddenly, my ufo list seems so little.
(what? my USO list? the stash? shhhhh)