October Sock Yarn - Tanis Fiber Arts

The final stats for my Toffee Sock

Yarn: Tanis Fiber Arts Blue Label
Colour: Sea Breeze
Needles: 2.25 mm
Gauge: 8.5 sts per inch

Composition:
80% superwash merino
20% nylon
4 oz skein (115 g) is 420 yards (385 m)

Tanis has 31 semi-solid colourways - the best selection of blues I've seen - and 8 multi-colours. This yarn would be wonderful for cabled or textured socks. This is a Canadian company; her website is www.tanisfiberarts.com

They're finished

My sock yarn review socks are finished. This is Tanis Fiber Arts Blue Label. I like this yarn a lot because the socks have good heft and are very soft.

No knots in the skein and the colour is saturated and consistent. What else could I want?

I like this yarn

I like this yarn. It's easy to knit, shows great stitch definition, and if like me, you like socks that are on the thicker side of thin, makes a sock that feels nice on your feet.

Of course, I'm not quite there yet, but that's what progress feels like so far.



Up the leg, over the heel and into the gusset. Some days I think I can do this sock in my sleep. (I'd think of giving up except: a) they fit me perfectly and b) I like knitting socks.

Not quite sure about this sock

This is my contribution to October's sockdown for Sock Knitters' Anonymous.



The category is under appreciated patterns - patterns where there are fifteen or fewer projects listed on Ravelry. I'm #6, which I found surprizing, considering this was the sock of the month for February 2009.

The yarn is Malabrigo in Impressionist Sky. This is the first time for me knitting with Malabrigo Sock - so far it's very soft, quite fine and slippery. I've gone down two needle sizes in the sock because I don't think I'll get a 72 stitch sock to fit using 2.75 mm needles.

The start is the cuff - knit sideways and then picked up for the leg.

Cast - on

My socks are cast-on. First impressions: there's not a lot of shine to this yarn, but it is soft and it makes a fairly dense fabric on 2.25 mm needles. When I say not a lot of shine, I would compare it to Koigu, which is similarly dense, but quite shiny.

This is a semi-solid, with small areas of blue that are more sky blue than turquoise.



The photo is not true to colour. It was taken outdoors in the shade and appears to be more blue than it is.

October Sock Yarn

October's sock yarn is Tanis Fibre Art's Blue Label, in the Seabreeze colourway.

Blue Label is her fingering weight - 80% superwash merino, 20% nylon.



This is a soft yarn, with a good heft for a fingering weight, so I am anticipating a dense fabric.