Younger Son and I were on our way to dinner one night last week when we spotted this.
Happily, his cell phone has an 8MP camera, and he was able to capture what we saw.
Thanks to City of Lakes Waldorf School, 2364 Nicollet Ave, for providing blog fodder!
Found at Indigo Dragonfly.
Tweety Of Versailles
I've Never Been Up With People Before
Have Fun Storming The Castle
Did I Listen To Pop Music Because I was Miserable? Or Was I Miserable Because I Listened To Pop Music? (High Fidelity series)
Squid Vicious
Who's A Guy Gotta Kill to Geta Drink Around Here? (Angelus)
Kathleen Turner Overdrive (High Fidelity Series)
Never Go Up Against A Sicilian When Death Is On The Line
I Made This Mixed Tape Just For You (High Fidelity series)
Is She All Green And Fuzzy And Mossy? (High Fidelity series)
River Song
Between Love And Batteries
Sonic F$#*ing Death Monkey (High Fidelity series)
And Then Buffy Staked Edward. The End.
Bright Lights, Big City, Busy Highway, Slow Unicorn.
As God Is My Witness, I Thought Turkeys Could Fly
Groverkill (i.e., it has all the colors of Grover)
Tiny Bloodsucking Dancer
Self Elmolation
Nancy Spungenbob
Shortbus
Grr...Arg.
Up Until The Punching, It Was A Real Nice Party
Also I Can Kill You With My Brain
2 Minutes For Sarcasm
Hootnanny: It's Chock Full Of Hoot, Just A Little Bit Of Nanny
You Punched The HighLights Out Of Her Hair!
My World Is All Askew
Paging Dr. Smartass
Back in the days of novelty yarns, I made a scarf for my SIL. She asked for one in red and purple to wear to her Red Hat meetings.
I obliged.
Did she ever wear it? I don't know (she lives 400+ miles away). Would you?
Yarn: Noro Silk Garden #271 and 279, about 1/2 skein each.
Needle: US#7. Or maybe it was a #6. Or maybe I did the ribbing on #5 and switched to a #6 or a #7 for the stockinette. Anyone? Bueller?
Pattern: A pastiche of hat patterns. I wanted a hat that got bigger after the ribbing, sort of a slouch/tan. This is that, if I rearrange the slouch -- which is minimal -- after I put it on.
Now I have a sort-of matched set of hat, scarf, and mittens. They are all Noro, just not all the same Noro.
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Matthew requested another hat for himself, this time in charcoal and 2x2 rib. He specifically said, No cables, no cuff, none of that stuff that is such fun for knitters. Sorry. Mom. He also does not care for the lines formed on the crown by columns of decreases, thus, the 2x2 rib that can hide the decreases. I sent him links to about a dozen different superwash merino DK yarns in charcoal. He chose Tanis Yellow Label, a yarn I had never used nor even heard of before I googled.
As soon as I ordered it I started noticing all the Ravelry projects made from it. Once the yarn arrived and I cast on, I learned why it is so popular. Nice stuff! Soft like merino but still with a bit of woolliness. The color is tonal, and it looks GREAT in ribbing -- very 3-dimensional.
What is that gap in the ribbing, you ask?
I could tell you it is for the unicorn horn at Matthew's hairline, but that would be... a lie.
Most of you already know this but just in case somebody doesn't: when knitting in the round, it is NOT necessary to join immediately after the cast on. That way lies madness twists.
Knit back and forth for a few rows, then join. You can easily see how the knitting should be joined and avoid that dreaded twist. Use the tail from the cast on to sew up the little seam; no one will ever notice when the garment is worn.
Observe:
In the case of the hat, above, the viewer will be so distracted by the jog in the stripes (does anyone have a good method for avoiding that job when the stripes are only 2 rows tall?) that they will never notice the seam in the ribbing. In the mittens, I defy you to find the seam.
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In other breaking news, I tripped over something invisible in my office last night and fell. My can of soda and bowl of popcoarn went flying, and I smacked my hand on a chair. (I know the thing that I tripped on was invisible because after I got up there was nothing there to see.) No huge damage to myself, and Lucy The Wonder Dog was thrilled that I had thrown an entire bowl of popcorn onto the floor for her, instead of the usual few kernels, but the index, middle, and ring fingers of my right hand were very sore. So sore, in fact, that I could not knit.
Wah! It doesn't look bad -- no swelling, no bruising -- but it is sore.
The next day the fingers were still sore but not enough to prevent knitting, only to make it go a bit more slowly. Yay!
On Sunday Matthew came up to the lake for the day and brought along Ser Percival. Percy and Lucy and Misha, our new dog (more on her another day) romped through the house and play-tussled and and play-bowed and played tug-o'-war with doggie toys. They were hilarious and entertaining and overful of energy.
At one point we put the three of them outside onto the deck, from whence they could access the little fenced-in area at the foot of the deck stairs. Misha and Percy wiggled through a small opening and went for a nice runaround across the yard and into the woods and over the hill and across the driveway and through the woods on the other side and through the neighbor's yard and eventually back home. Matthew and I were watching out the window. We saw Misha make a l-o-n-g jump over a gully -- I swear her hang time rivaled Michael Jordan's.
Later, after the dogs were tired and resting comfortably on various soft places about the house, he and I went to New Year's Day gathering of some library friends. We had a lovely time.
We came home. Andrew was visiting a friend in Madison for New Year's; Smokey had worked the night before and would work again that night, so he had slept all afternoon. The three dogs puppies were unsupervised.
::cue ominous music::
What greeted us:
I laughed until tears ran down my face. Sometimes that is all you can do. The yarns had been in a basket on a table in the laundry room, safely behind a closed door (I thought). But one of us (his initials = Matthew) has great difficulty remembering to close doors. I gathered up all the yarn and put it safely out of the way until I could start detangling it.
Oops, I left a tiny bit hanging over the edge of the snack table. Guess what almost happened again.
I spent hours on Monday -- hours that could have been spent productively knitting -- detangling. Still, I was sitting comfortably in my recliner with my audiobook playing (A Feast for Crows, thanks for asking) and playing with yarn, so it could have been worse.
The result.
The pink and brown yarns are much, much harder because they were still skeined. The other yarns had already been wound into balls; that made them much easier to detangle.
Was/is it worth all the work? Who knows, but I got a pretty darned good blog posst out of it ;-)
You have probably seen references (I first typed "reverences", which may be appropriate in this case) to Wovember. I cannot decide if this is a British thing or if it is world-wide, but really, who cares? It is a chance to celebrate a wonderful fiber*.
A few facts cheerfully stolen cheerfully lifted gleaned from Wovember.com:
One last factoid:
As far as their reputation for stupidity is concerned it turns out that sheep are not half so dumb as we have always assumed. Recent experiments have shown that sheep are really quite bright. They have the ability to recognise their shepherds and each other. Nor do sheep have a short attention span. It was proved that sheep could remember the faces of their shepherds and other sheep amongst whom they had lived for up to two years. Some sheep have also learned to roll across cattle grids on their backs and new measures may have to be taken in order to keep them penned in because it has also been shown that they can teach each other this naughty trick.
- Alan Butler, Sheep: the remarkable story of the humble animal that built the modern world
Do go to Wovember.com and look around. They have lots more information about wool and sheep, plus an abundance of sheepie photos.
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* A fiber that, tragically, I have some trouble wearing. Unless it is very nice merino, it itches. And unless the indoor temperature is somewhere south of 66˚ F, one that is too warm for this post-menepausal woman. But I persevere in my knitting of it...
I have been accumulating a little pile of yarn. Time to photograph it, blog it, and upload it to Ravelry.
Clockwise, from upper left:
The orange/copper/gray sock yarn was acquired at the knitting event I attended in September. Don't remember the vendor. It is lovely soft; comments in Ravelry make me think it may not wear well enough for socks. Perhaps another Citron, this one for me...
The Kill Bill sock yarn is destined for a scarfy shawlette for Alex. More on this below.
The Dream in Color sockweight I acquired months ago, from Webs, I think. It has been draped lovingly around my mannequin's neck ever since. Don't know what it will become, but probably NOT socks. No nylon in it, plus the tonal colors are too pretty to hide under pant legs.
The worsted weight sock yarn will be... socks. Very warm socks, socks that will have to be hand washed. I found the yarn at The Tall Tale in Tofte, Minnesota, little town on the North Shore. The proprietess, a very nice and friendly dog lover, told me that one skein was not enough for a pair of socks but that I could get two pairs from three skeins. Hence, the multiple purchase. Don't know what they will look like yet, but they should be fast and fun to knit. The yarn is rustic, i.e., a bit scratchy -- perfect for rustic socks.
The laceweight alpaca is nearly the same color as the laceweight Schaefer I bought at Knitty City in May, but is thinner. Guess I am attracted to pale, pale browns and grays.
Oops, forgot some other recently acquired yarn.
That is 6,000 yards of lace weight cashmere from Colourmart. Actually, it is not lace weight; it is more like cobweb weight, much thinner than I expected which is why I got the second cone. Some of it may become a scarf, some may become a sweater. Someday.
Now, the Kill Bill.
Last year Matthew bought himself a hand-made bike painted in a Kill Bill color scheme.
Here is a better picture of it, taken by the person he bought it from.
(Why a bicycle painted in a Kill Bill color scheme? Who knows...)
When I saw this yarn on the Simply Socks website* I knew it had to come to my house. So it did.
When it arrived I emailed Alex and Matthew and asked if anyone was interested in a pair of socks or a scarf to match the bike.
A few more emails, a few Rav searches, and it was decided: the yellow yarn will become this.
* Does Simply Socks's website remind anyone else of a 1960s Betty Crocker cake mix? It's the two-tone red horizontal stripes and the vaguely spoon-shaped thing at the top of the page that does it.
Interweave is offering a download of Knit Accessories 2009 for 10 cents until August 29. Never one to pass up a bargain, I jumped on that bad boy immediately. Paging through it just now, I came upon this little lace shawlette/scarfy thing.
Given that I am now a lace knitter, this one appealed to me -- small, quite open so it wouldn't take much yarn nor take forever to knit. Idly I perused the pattern. Hmm, Halcyon Yarn Silk Gemstone 2/5. I wonder is that is laceweight or what, I thought.
Ravelry to the rescue.
Guess what I have in my stash, just waiting for the right project?
Just in case you are not familiar with that yarn, here are the deets.
I don't necessarily believe in kismet or karma, but this just seems... foreordained.
This yarn has always been intended for a lacy scarf. I had been considering Amy Singer's Montego Bay. And that would have been a lovely scarf, too. But this is better. We are leaving tomorrow for ten days on the North Shore, and a lace knitting project requires some uninterrupted knitting time at the beginning. Perfect.
::scurries off to pack the silk and needle and a tool /notions pack into its own special tote bag::
I am a charter member of the apostrophe police, and I currently trying to find out who I need to arrest for this egregious overuse of the little curvy devils.
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This year's birthday was quite restrained, but Smokey and I did go out for dinner at a very picturesque location nearby. Tthe menu turned out to be unimaginative, but the food was excellent and the setting was lovely.
The shawl is slowly coming off the needles, which leads me to the all important question: what to cast on next? Should it be the sweater on the left but done with vertical stripes like the swatch on the right (please turn the swatch 90˚ clockwise in your mind), using the Noro yarns below?
Alex has requested a rugby-style doggie sweater for Percy, her and Matthew's rescued pit bull terrier, and has chosen yarn from my stash:
I am all excited about lace knitting and am considering using some Rowan Calmer I bought on closeout at Webs for a Cece (but I would make it longer and with 3/4 sleeves):
(I am not fond of the color of the Calmer -- color at right side of skein is truest -- and am thinking of overdyeing it. Tea, for a browner tone? Rit, if I wanted dusky blue? Anyone have experience?)
There are a number of other project swimming in my head but I'll stop here.
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I picked these wild blackberries three feet outside my front door.
Small but tasty.
So I was having breakfast with #2 Son and BGFE* and they excitedly told me about the yarn they had seen on their way to the diner on their bikes. That reminded me that today was International Yarn Bombing Day. Nothing would do but that I took a detour on my way from the diner to Wisconsin to check out the reported yarn bomb.
It was awesome.
This is a pedestrian bridge over I-35W at 40th Street in Minneapolis.
View to the south, toward the suburbs:
View to the north, toward downtown:
View overhead:
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* Best GirlFriend Ever
The interior of Knitty City, LYS of Kay Gardiner.
Not only do they have lots of yummy yarn, they give great bag.
In my bag were the following delights:
Two skeins of Koigu KPPPM in the imaginatively named 720, destined to become a Baktus for me. When I did a pattern search for Baktus, though, I found that there are a number of scarves that would be fun to make with this. Stay tuned.
One skein, 700 yards of Schaeffer Audrey laceweight, 50/50 merino/silk, in the rather more imaginatively named Elisabeth Kubler-Ross. This stuff is to die for and will become some sort of scarfy-shawly thing for me.
Two skeins of Alchemy Silk Purse in copper. Also to die for and also destined for some sort of scarfy thing for me.
No Kay Gardiner sighting ::sigh::
Purchased: 2 skeins Alchemy silk, 2 skeins Koigu, 1 large skein Schaefer Audrey laceweight (700 yds, 50/50 merino/silk). One Addi Turbo US#0 circ. Pictures of that when I get home.
Wool sweaters are too warm for me except in the depths of winter, and even then I am often too warm when I wear one out somewhere; our house is quite cool, but most places are not. After much pondering I decided I needed to explore yarns that were not 100% wool. To that end I ordered one skein each of five different yarns from Webs and knit some swatches.
I already had a skein of Brown Sheep Cotton Fleece (80% cotton/20% wool). Left half knit on US#6, right half on US#7.
Color is most accurate in the first photo, although IRL the color is rather less saturated.
I swatched some Classic Elite Verde Collection Solstice (70% organic cotton/30% wool) in Pine Cone.
I swatched Classic Elite Verde Collection Chesapeake in Tokyo Rose, which is not rose at all but instead a deep, rich, ruby red -- not the brown/orange red in the photo; we all know how difficult it is to photograph red. Left end on US#4, middle section on US#5, right end on US#6.
As you might guess from the swatches, I am currently obsessed with cables. I loved the way they looked in the Brown Sheep Cotton Fleece but fear that an entire sweater would be uncomfortably heavy and would probably sag. The Classic Elite Chesapeake is a close second. If I do make such a sweater this might be the yarn.
Then tax season ended and I had more time -- and brain cells -- to knit, and I moved on to other things. Still have three more yarns to swatch:
The Louisa Harding looks to me like it was made in the same factory as the Classic Elite Chesapeake. Same fiber content, same feel, same look, right down to having one ply that is a slightly darker/lighter tone than the rest of the strand. The Elsebeth Lavold Cool Wool looks and feels the most like wool even though it is the same content as several others -- 50/50 cotton/wool. The Tahki Coast seems to be a very loose yarn, one that might not wear well. Cool stuff, though -- just looking at it makes me think of a knock-around sweater, one that I might wear for years and years until it fell apart (or I kicked, whichever came first).
This whole experiment was perfect for the months of March and April, when I was too brain-dead at the end of the day even to knit. All these were knit on my Sundays off.
Plus, it was educational: I learned to cable without a cable needle! Easy peasy, once I got the hang of it. I figure if I can do it on cotton, I can do it on anything, although if a cable involved more than 6 stitches I think I'd go back to the cable needle. Not sure I could hold more than 3 three stitches securely.
I went to Yarnover yesterday. Bought ZERO anything. I have plenty/more than enough/disgustingly too much yarn already, plus I was not in the mood for browsing much.
I took a morning class, Tips and Tricks, from TechKnitter. Learned a bunch of things, brain overload.
In the afternoon I took a class from Clara Parkes (I keep thinking of her as Clara Parker-Bowles -- Brit royal overload much?) called something like All About Wool. That one was relaxing and fun. She handed out bits of washed but unprocessed wool, bits of carded wool, and tiny hanks of yarn, which we swatched. Heaven!
Here is my swatch surrounded by locks and bits of carded wool. (Now I know exactly what those terms mean! Yay, me!)
The yarns in the swatch, which was knit on an Addi Turbo US#6 except as noted below:
A Woolen-spun Saxon Merino 2-ply sportweight from Catskill Merino. This yarn was lovely squishy, almost sproingy (I know you know what these technical terms mean) and delighted everyone in the class. Woolen-spun, you are lovely. An additional treat: Eugene Wyatt, the man who raises this flock, has a stand in the Greenmarket in Union Square in New York City every Saturday; we are going to New York for a long weekend in a couple weeks to visit #1 Son. I might just have to subway down to Union Square to look at his yarn. Maybe (maybe? hah!) I will buy some yarn that day.
B Worsted-spun Wensleydale 2-ply from Garthenor Organic Pure Wool. As soon as people started knitting with this there was a soft undercurrent through the classroom of, Ewww, I don't like this. True, this yarn was completely and totally different from the first -- Clara said of the two that now we had experienced both ends of the spectrum -- but my cables knit from it were so gorgeous I kept showing them to people who were pooh-pooh-ing the yarn. In the right garment this lightweight yarn would be wonderful.
C Targhee 2-ply from Sweetgrass Wool (scroll down to the 2-ply natural). This one is kinda halfway between A and B, a lovely combination of both. So lovely, in fact, that when I got home I ordered a skein of their natural sock yarn and a skein of the 2-ply natural blend dark. If I do indeed knit socks from the former I will have to renege on a long-standing pledge never to commit to hand-washing a pair of socks; it might just be worth it.
D Dorset Down from Garthenor. When I was in college I made myself a fisherman knit pullover, full of cables, from a kit I bought at Dayton's. (You know this was years and years ago because 1, it was called Dayton's, not Macy's or Marshall Field, and B, it still had a yarn department.) This yarn reminded me of knitting that sweater. Creamy ivory worsted weight, still a hint of lanolin in it.
E Shetland from Elemental Affects. This was a sturdy light worsted weight. Would make a sweater that would last roughly... forever.
F Unspun Icelandic from Schoolhouse Press. The knowledgeable among us commented that this yarn seemed to be slightly felted to help it hold together; even so, it was fragile. The yarn broke for the knitter next to me, and broke for me when I frogged and reknit this on the smaller needle. I knit on a Signature US#4 needle because, when I initially knit it on the #6 it looked awful. I think the #4 was just right. Would make a lightweight but very warm garment if you could stand handling the yarn.
G Icelandic from Wellspring Woolens, available at The Yarnery in St Paul. What a contrast with the unspun Icelandic, above! This one was soft and lightly plied; I could see making a very warm but lightweight cardigan from this. I think I knit it on the #6, although my memory fails. Melinda Kjarum, who raises the sheep and spins the yarn, was in the class, much to Clara's surprise and delight. She (Melinda) gave Clara two balls of yarn, from one of which came this sample. She shared pictures of her sheep and stories about them. Clara said she wants to come back in her next life as a sheep on Melinda's farm.
H Herdwick from Garthenor. If you like knitting with coarse hemp rope, this is the one for you. A coat made from this would be passed on to one's children and grandchildren and probably great-great-great-grandchildren, assuming it was protected from moths for the requisite 150+ years. Clara pointed out that it works well in weaving, however, and I could see how it might; once again, it would make an heirloom coat.
As you may have guessed, I didn't have my camera with me at Yarnover and I didn't bother pulling out my iPod camera. Just know that the place (Hopkins High School) was jam-packed full of yarn and knitters and that the latter were displaying the products of their labors proudly. I only have two hand-knit sweaters (so far) and they are both much too warm to wear when the temperature is above freezing; instead I wore my t-shirt that says, I knit so I don't kill people. Contrary to that sentiment, I was happy to see friends there -- Cathy-Cate, Ellen (of Warm Heads, Not Hot Heads fame), soxanne, Lorene from my knitting group (she was working a booth with Loretta, from whom I bought the yarn for this scarf at my first Shepherd's Harvest), Chris who has a cabin on our lake.
Remember this?
It came to me that I had swatched this yarn a few month ago. That swatch had enough yarn in it to knit another row and a half! That would certainly help, but would it be enough?
Then I hit on the idea of weighing my remaining ball of yarn before and after one of those 500+ stitch rows.
Before: 11 grams
After: 9 grams
Assuming that the bind-off row takes a bit more than each of the other rows -- which is what I have noticed in the past; when I run out of yarn during a bind-off, ripping back exactly one row doesn't give me quite enough yarn (YMMV) -- and assuming that I used exactly 2 grams (scale doesn't go to tenths of a gram) I would be able to knit 8 of the remaining 11 eleven rows called for by the pattern, plus the bind-off row.
That might be satisfactory, but I thought I should at least explore the possibility of using ALL the Misti Alpaca Hand-Painted yarn and doing the bind-off in a solid color.
At left, all the solids I considered; at right, the finalists.
I am leaning toward either of the ones on the left side of the finalist photo, with a slight preference for the one at upper left.
Opinions?
A couple weekends ago I re-organized the stash, which had become unmanageable.
Before:
To the untrained eye that may look fairly well organized, but some boxes are only partly full, others are overflowing, and the whole tower wobbles.
Then there was this mess:
That is what used to be my laundry-folding table before it became overrun with newly purchased yarn -- some of which is a year old by now -- and various other flotsam and jetsam. (Yes, those are two Red Scarves in the front, waiting for their ends to be woven in and to be blocked and mailed. When this room is more orderly I will be able to do that -- easily.)
I am not showing you the yarn that is still in the cardboard boxes in which it arrived in my mailbox. I do still have SOME pride.
Since most of my stash is wool or wool blend in worsted weight, I sorted it by color, plus one basket each for DK, sport/fingering weight, and sock yarns, plus one for oddballs that didn't fit neatly into another category.
It became immediately and abundantly clear that I needed a couple more Rubbermaid stacking/underbed boxes, which were obtained forthwith.
A goodly part of the worsted weight stash is Knit Picks Wool of the Andes, mostly purchased on sale with an eye toward community knitting. I am slowly replacing that part of the stash with Cascade 220, similarly purchased on sale but from Webs during their annual May sale. It is so handy to have a multicolored stash of wool when a plea comes out for hats or mittens or whatever.
Ta da!
The room is still a work in progress, but it is vastly improved over what it was and I am pleased. Note how much more orderly the shelves to the right have become. That was thanks to the two new big plastic bins at the bottom:
The stack of yarn boxes used to sit atop two nested cardboard boxes that held fabric. Over time those boxes had squashed enough that the entire pile was unstable. This is much better. I also turned the entire stack so the long side of the boxes was against the wall; now it does not intrude into the room.
The Goodwill pile also grew significantly during this whole exercise.
btw, if anyone is interested in those two big cones of Sugar 'n' Creme, one whitish and the other pale yellow, sing out in the comments. I got them for free; they are yours for the cost of postage. You can see in the photos above that I will still have plenty of S'n'C for myself.
Cleaning and organizing always brings brings things, previously thought lost, to light: for example, these four skeins of Drops Alpaca sportweight, purchased last October for a sportweight Palindrome for the Red Scarf Project. They disappeared into that table, never to be seen again... until now.
I'm set for next year!
I got some new sock yarn recently.
I bought it on Etsy from Rabbitch.
I bought it because I liked the name of the colo[u]rway, which of course I no longer remember exactly.
It was something like Blankety-Blank Bruise Blankety.
A perfectly descriptive name, don't you agree?
If you want some yourself, go here. (Even if you don't want some, go there and read her copy. It's worth it.)
I dug through my sock yarn stash to decide on sock projects to bring along on vacation.
(Photo taken after I had already plucked The Chosen Yarns.)
The first choice is some Mountain Colors Bearfoot, colorway Juniper, that I won in Lisa's snow melt contest last year. This yarn cried out to be knit concurrently with the Noro striped sweater for which you saw the yarn yesterday. Don't you agree that a pair of socks from this lovely stuff would be the perfect accessory for that sweater? Yes, I thought you would.
I wound it into a ball on Saturday, but decided I should swatch and throw the it into the laundry just to be sure it would stand up to my rather careless care of socks. (I don't refuse to hand wash socks.) If it proves to require more tender care than I can provide I'll save it for a lacy scarf, and instead bring along this, purchased here, which would also be great with that sweater and which I swatched and washed last year:
Both of those yarns are dark and thus suitable for daylight knitting. When the light is dim, say, in the car after dark when I am using my headlamp, these aging eyes prefer that I work with light-colored yarn.
Behold:
That is Opal Starken Zarkus, colorway 2006, bought somewhere in the past year. This yarn marks my efforts to purchase sock yarns that will produce socks whose colors blend in my wardrobe rather than scream COLOR! FUN! I love Opal yarn for socks; it feels like no nonsense, like it will last forever.
Just in case the Opal socks knit up so quickly that I need a second light-colored sock project, here we have Trekking XXL, colorway "Clown Barf" 156, purchased here and which color marks my inconsistent approach to the color theory mentioned above. Trekking has much the same feel to me as Opal. "This is sock yarn."
