Yet another Spun-to-Finished project! Simple socks this time, but I really wanted to show off the color transition, and a pair of “fraternal twin” socks seemed like the perfect opportunity. First up, the fiber!
The fiber is from Twisted Fiber Art and is “Sleek,” a now discontinued blend of 50% Superwash Merino wool and 50% Tencel which makes it a great, sturdy blend for socks. The colorway is, “Ember,” which has also been discontinued from the Twisted Fiber Art list of colorways. The tencel makes the Superwash Merino spin up super silky and smooth.
And the spun yarn! I used a chain ply method to get 415 yards out of 4 oz of fiber. The plying method helped preserve the color changes in the roving. It came out to right about fingering weight, so I knew this would eventually become socks.
The finished socks! I knit the same basic sock I always knit – 64 stitches around, top-down, with a heel flap. I started them August 3, 2016 and finished August 19, 2016, so these went pretty quickly! As you can see, the striping doesn’t quite line up from sock to sock, and that’s okay. I actually prefer to waste less yarn and just knit onto the second sock without worrying about the start color lining up just right. For the heels, I switch to the other end of the yarn cake once I start the heel flap so that the color transition on the leg to instep section isn’t interrupted. Yeah, it makes for two extra ends to weave in per sock, but it takes a matter of a few minutes and makes the sock look nice. Here’s the Ravelry Project Link for this project if you want to see more. There aren’t any notes or anything since this isn’t a really complicated pattern, but I am pleased with how they knit up and, as usual, how amazing it is that my hands can turn a bunch of fiber into something I can wear.