Thank you for such a great response to the Ripples Crafts fundraising yarn for the first half of 2013. I have been kept very busy dyeing Heather's GOLD and I will be back at the dyepots tomorrow to do fresh batches. If you want this colour on the BFL/N base, then there is a very limited supply of this base left. What is in the shop is all that I will be able to do on this particular base, but of course it will still be readily available on the Reliable Sock Yarn base.
Today I spent a bit of time with this colourway (well - it was awfully snowy and cold outside and it was very hard to drag myself away from the fire). First I had one of the little exciting pleasures that knitters experience - the pleasure of winding the yarn off the hank into a cake. I love this process, especially when the hank is a multi-colour hank - it isn't so exciting with a solid colour.
I always find it intriguing with multi colour yarns how different they look on the hank, and then the cake, and eventually the knitting. The above pictures were taken under different light conditions to those that follow, but it gives you an idea of how it is knitting up in a sock using 2.5mm needles and over 60 stitches.
You can see that the deep, deep plum is the dominant shade, but I think they blend well together creating a bold sock:
I particularly like the way it knits up in the rib section of the sock - very pleasing:
Remember that all the hanks will vary slightly as I don't measure precisely the length of the hank dyed in each colour - I tend to do it by eye. And the way it looks knitted up in a sock may look very different to whatever you choose to knit with the yarn, but it gives you an idea of how the colours look blended in the knitting.
And from Heather and myself - a heartfelt thank you for your support so far.
