Progress - almost done

Almost done. Almost done. Knit, Knit, Knit. We'll get there yet.

May disappeared. I am certain that yesterday was Mother's Day and here we are, halfway to Christmas. Well, perhaps I exaggerate - halfway to winter and I'm not even out of my winter clothes from last season. We had one hot dry spell and now we have had nothing but rain and more rain. I refuse to complain, however: we could be in Louisiana, watching our livelihoods disappear before the onslaught of oil.

This is progress to date:



It's not quite the easiest set of socks to see. The kettle-dying process Nancy uses creates a very mottled look - I quite like it, as it gives a lot of dimension to a pretty ordinary sock. This won't work for lace or cables, because the pattern will be lost.

Fireweed Dyeworks - first sock done

I can't believe it's the long weekend already !! And, because it's May long, it's raining - no - make that pouring. Anyone who has dreams of getting the bedding plants in might as well have stayed in bed.

This is the first sock from Fireweed Dyeworks Kettle Dyed Fingering in Northern Lights:



The sock itself looks a little off - that's because I have learned the hard way that when I rotate photos, the program compresses them. The leg isn't quite that fat.

The yarn, however, is plump and very easy to work. No knots, no slubby bits, no ply tears. The dye pattern creates what I call a mosaic look - variegated without striping at all. Some parts of the dye are saturated, some not so, but this is a look I like, so I am very pleased.

A slight change in plans

It's Fireweed Dyeworks, but not the same yarn. This is alaskannancy's superwash merino in Northern Lights.



This is Nancy's Kettle-dyed Sock Yarn and yes, it's on the needles, and no, I'm not quite as slow a knitter as I am a blogger.



What I am very slow at is taking photographs. This is the cast-on post. I predict that magically, within a day or two, this first sock will be finished.

May Sock Yarn Review - Fireweed Dyeworks

I said I was going to do Francis Patrick's yarn, but I can't find anywhere that the vendor is still active, so it seems, not pointless, but perhaps not what I had intended when I decided to blog about a sock yarn of the month.

Fireweed Dyworks is very much still in business.



On Ravelry she's Alaskannancy, and that's how you find her on Etsy. The yarn base is Cherry Tree Hill's Supersock Select.