Man-friendly Proto Socks
After spinning up the first half of the Hang on Sloopy superwash merino, I just knew that there was more sock yarn spinning in my future -- especially when the man in my life demonstrated a little bit of interest. Of course, orange was completely out of the question. But he was willing to entertain some darker, more masculine colors. He told me greys, browns and deep reds, like burgandies. Fortunately, for me, Teyani at Crown Mountain Farms was already thinking along the same lines when I emailed her asking if she was planning on introducing any colorways that my guy would be interested in.
On Saturday, she posted 5 new colorways to her blog. it took me just a couple of heartbeats to know which of those would be good options for coming to my house. They arrived here today, after their long trip from Washington. I selected "Do You Believe in Magic" which is a blend of black, brown and some grey color and "My Boyfriend's Back" which is almost all reds, varied mostly by color depth, with some of the red being so deep it almost takes on a black-like quality. Apparently, my search for man-friendly colors was part of the inspiration for this colorway. How cool is that?
I'm pretty excited about getting started on these. I think John needs a pair of handspun, handknit socks for Christmas. And John is (and I quote) "Curious about how the red stuff will spin". But since I also have a large bale of moorit CVM to work on for a light winter cardigan for moi, I've promised myself that I will spin up the first portion of the CVM before I get back to to spinning for socks. Since I've got a couple of sock projects to complete before I can start on socks for John, this should be a good way to keep all my projects on track.
P.S. There's still time to enter my little contest for one of my patterns. Just check out the three posts I had about the Michigan Fiber Festival and let me know in the comments to this post which picture you think is the one I took (i.e. the fake guy shot).
What lovely colourways. I always have problems finding "sensible" colours for DH too. I don't think he would wear the pair I am designing at the moment, they are multi pink/ purple handspun ;-)
I bought some "Twist and Shout" from Teyani and it came yesterday. It's beautiful and I can't wait to spin it.
I'll be watching for photos of the spun stuff - these colorways do entice, and do seem more masculine than most! And I love you tensioned homemade Lazy Kate - thanks for sharing!
Ooh, those are going to be pretty!!
Um . . . I mean, handsome, strong, and manly in a really attractive way . . .
great that John is curious about the reds... and definately, YOU were the total inspiration for that colorway! You did a nice job of "planting the seed of thought" and off I went :-)
tell John I can't wait to see how it spins up either! (maybe this weekend) I'm so glad that you are pleased. that makes everything totally fun.
Is one hank of pencil roving enough for a pair of socks? I've been wondering about that.
Love the orangey one (of course. ;-)
I'm interested to see if the reds stay masculine or transform towards girly pink. My latest husband sock colourway is purple/teal/navy because he likes them bright. If I want my socks to stay mine I just add pink or lilac and he doesn't look at them twice.