I received the October shipment of the Cookie A Sock Club:
It’s a Green Mountain Spinnery yarn made specially for the club in a rustic brown. I love it. It’s a little rough on the hands but I’m hoping that makes them extra durable on the feet. Two of the pairs of socks I’ve made from this sock club have already felted so much that they now only fit my 9-year-old. I cannot tell you what a bummer that is. I had originally planned to do Cookie’s sock club for a second year, but now I’m reconsidering. I’ve absolutely had the best time making the socks and the cookies but between the short lifespan of some of the socks and the fact that I feel like I’ve only made socks and hats this year, I wonder if one year in the club is enough. I do love the surprises in the mail every two months so I may decide to do it after all but I’m debating. (Any other great yarn clubs I should know about?!) With this Green Mountain Spinnery yarn, I’ll make the Sarsparilla socks, which I’ve already started. Also, both recipes in this shipment — a pumpkin cookie (people, I loooove pumpkin) and hamentaschen — look amazing. I’ll make the pumpkin ones soon and save the hamentaschen for Purim. (She could have timed that recipe a little better, in my opinion, but I’m still thrilled she included it.)
Speaking of holidays, I also made another hat. I don’t even celebrate Christmas but I put these two colors together and came up with this:
Meanwhile, I’m still crocheting hexagons too. I’ll post an update on that soon.
October 17, 2012 at 8:21 am
Anne Hanson (Knitspot) has a Barenaked club starting in November. I am thinking about it. Lots of different patterns come with, not just socks.
She has another club later in the year, too. She gathers indie-yarns for her shipments, which I LOVE. For the Barenaked club she gathers many different breeds and fibers.
October 17, 2012 at 9:21 am
I’ll check that out — thanks!
October 17, 2012 at 1:05 pm
How are you washing your handknit socks? I do tend to put mine in the washer and lay them out flat to dry, but if the yarn isn’t superwash, this method leads to shrinking over time. (I sometimes lay my superwash socks out to dry, but if they’re biggish I even put them in the dryer.) If your socks aren’t superwash, I think I’d just soak them with Soak wash, squeeze out gently, roll them in a towela and walk on them to squeeze out excess water, and then lay flat.
I’m not a very good clubber because I like to pick my own colors and patterns! But I do them sometimes anyway. If I don’t want to knit a particular pattern, I’ll usually use the yarn to knit or design something else.
October 17, 2012 at 1:24 pm
Yeah, I wash them in the washer and then lay them out to air dry. I think some of the yarns either weren’t technically superwash (even if they said they were) or I assumed they were when they weren’t. Can you recommend any yarn clubs that you especially liked?
October 28, 2012 at 10:53 am
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November 18, 2012 at 1:08 pm
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