Cozy Up Socks For The Family

These handmade socks are interesting in each way: they’re enjoyable and fast to knit, require some attention-grabbing strikes, and are endlessly various-in colour, shape, and dimension! Equally vital, they just feel good to wear. They’re cozy and comfy, and they’re private. If you’ve been fortunate sufficient to obtain a pair of handmade socks sooner or later, you realize what we imply. When you set them on, there’s a moment of connection with the one that made your socks. And if you’re the maker, you are feeling that you’re providing love and consolation in your reward.

Cozy Up anti slip socks, by Ann Budd, are available three sizes, small, medium, and large, to fit everyone within the family. The pattern includes directions as nicely for socks in three completely different Stone Wool yarns, Corriedale, Cormo, and Romney + Merino. The simplicity of Ann’s design allows the person characteristics of these yarns to take center stage, showcasing their pure, rustic beauty.

Below, we’ve rounded up a few of the explanations we love knitting these socks in these three Stone Wool faves!

Cozy Up Socks knitted with Stone Wool Corriedale in Rye 01.

Corriedale Socks

Our mill-spun yarn, Stone Wool Corriedale, is a cozy Aran weight with all of the warmth and cushiness you count on in an excellent wool yarn. The Corriedale breed was developed in New Zealand by crossing high quality-wool Merinos with longwool Lincoln sheep, a combination that created gentle-to-the-touch wool with an extended staple length. The blend strikes the proper steadiness of laborious-wearing and mushy. We’d be remiss if we didn’t mention that we mix colored fleece with white earlier than spinning to make a misty weathered gray, then we overdye the yarn to create lovely, muted colours.

Cozy Up Socks knitted with Stone Wool Cormo in Tobacco (MC) and Ozark (CC).

Cormo Socks

Our first mill-spun yarn, Stone Wool Cormo stays true to its roots, using springy Cormo wool from a pair of ranches situated in Wyoming and Montana, and crafted with the proper, wonderful-tuned spin to create a yarn that’s an on the spot classic. We worked with our mill to create a particular technique of fiber preparation, one which marries woolen and worsted processes. The result is a unique yarn with woolen-spun’s airy loft and worsted’s energy. Springy, lofty, and with a substantial hand, Cormo presents crisp stitch definition and elegant texture in knitting-excellent for the Cozy Up Socks! As you possibly can see in the picture above, Cormo can also be an incredible choice for colorwork and stripes.

Cozy Up Socks knitted with Stone Wool Romney + Merino in Cinder.

Romney + Merino Socks

Our Stone Wool Romney + Merino is an all-seasons DK weight yarn with an irresistible hand. We worked with a small mill in upstate New York to spin lustrous long-staple Romney with smooth Merino to make a 2-ply DK weight. Together, these fibers create a mushy, sturdy yarn with a feathery halo and gentle drape. A yarn properly suited to nearly every little thing, including cozy baby socks (milkyway.cs.rpi.edu).

Ready to solid on the Cozy Up Socks? Knitters of all skill ranges will enjoy the simple strategy to their design. The socks start at the toe and are worked to the cuff, that includes tidy quick-row toe and heel building. Let a great yarn color inspire you, or embellish these basic socks in any quantity or methods: Try them with contrasting heel and toe colors, add stripes, knit-and-purl patterns, work in a easy Fair Isle pattern, substitute a ribbed cuff for Ann’s garter-stitch one-whatever you fancy.

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