the blue blog archives: sock stock soars

Retro rib socks all done. Shepherd Sport, China Blue, Retro Ribs: love it, love it, love it!

And you wanna see my souvenir yarn from Columbus? Don't want to shock you, but it's sock yarn. More Lorna's Laces Shepherd Sport to be exact.

I liked the colors and was intrigued by the name, "argyle". I'm really curious to see how this knits up.

posted by alison at 8:57 am | in people who make socks...

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oooh - I love that colourway. It looks gorgeous. I can't wait to see it knitted up. Nice to have you back, thanks for the vacation updates!

Posted by: kerrie at April 22, 2005 9:11 AM

Love those socks! Beautiful color! Where is the pattern from?! I have been looking for a new fun sock pattern for my second pair...

Posted by: Dani at April 22, 2005 9:12 AM

The pattern is Retro Rib Socks from the Winter Interweave Knits.

Posted by: alison at April 22, 2005 9:15 AM

Ms. Sock Queen - we, too, are excited about your new sock yarn and are anxious ro see one knitted up!

Posted by: leslie at April 22, 2005 9:32 AM

Excellent! I hope you'll make that argyle sock yoru very next project. I read that in the 50ies they did have yarn that was "precision dyed" so it would knit into a perfect argyle sock. Or not. If you weren't on gauge ... Or everybody was a robot in the 50ies. The colours are lovely, so what ever it ends up looking like (I mean pattern-wise), it'll be one excellent sock. I mean, two.

Posted by: valentina at April 22, 2005 9:37 AM

Ooh, the argyle colorway is beautiful. I'll be interested to see how it knits up too. I don't remember seeing that color before. I have some LL Vera I really want to knit but this darned spinning keeps getting in the way of my knit projects.

Posted by: karen at April 22, 2005 10:52 AM

Must dig out that pattern...love the blue, too! Argyle...can't wait to see them worked up!

Posted by: margene at April 22, 2005 11:07 AM

The blue Retro Ribs look great. I love the Lorna's Laces colourway - it will be very interesting to see it knitted up.

Posted by: Mary at April 22, 2005 11:47 AM

Oooh, I love that Argyle colorway. It's very boyish.

Posted by: Colleen at April 22, 2005 12:20 PM

isn't that sock wool awesome.The only thing is I am having some problems with mine.It doesn't seem to want to play fair right now.
What pattern are you going to use for your socks?

Posted by: cara at April 22, 2005 2:22 PM

well, hurry up 'cause we wanna see!!! ^_^

it's 67° today here!!

Posted by: tania at April 22, 2005 4:02 PM

That is some beautiful sock yarn. Argyle huh? :)

Posted by: Vicki at April 22, 2005 5:27 PM

Not to burst the bubble, but Argyle is named for a Chicago neighborhood in tribute to LL's new base of operation. Argyle is a stop on the "L"in the center of a Vietnamese district.

Your Retro Ribs are beautiful.

Posted by: alissa at April 22, 2005 5:35 PM

Now why would that burst my bubble, Alissa? It's so neat knowing where the name came from. What a cool name for a subway stop!

Posted by: alison at April 22, 2005 7:40 PM

I love those socks! I've been wanting to make some solid textured ones, too, but everytime I try to buy the yarn I end up falling for the variegated colors again.
My recent visit to the funagain games website to check out the new games made me remember how much I had been wanting to try a new one. I wanted to get something shorter for when we don't have hours to play, but I was enticed by Puerto Rico instead. I'll be ordering it Monday. Woohoo!

Posted by: Melisa at April 23, 2005 9:12 AM