{"id":1253,"date":"2014-05-21T16:58:24","date_gmt":"2014-05-21T16:58:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/annetarsia.com\/?p=1253"},"modified":"2014-05-21T19:19:13","modified_gmt":"2014-05-21T19:19:13","slug":"simply-sock-yarn-company-and-the-namanu-shawl","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bartonriveryarn.com\/annetarsia\/2014\/05\/simply-sock-yarn-company-and-the-namanu-shawl\/","title":{"rendered":"Simply Sock Yarn Company and the Namanu shawl"},"content":{"rendered":"

Sometimes it seems that my knitting life started at Sock Summit 2009.\u00a0 That is when I first met a lot of people who have ended up having a lot of influence on my knitting career!\u00a0 One of those people was Allison, of SSYC<\/a>.<\/p>\n

\"AllisonInShop\"<\/a>\u00a0 I was teaching how to knit Argyle Socks, and was always on the lookout for sock yarns with clear colors, a large range of color, and good quality.\u00a0 Also, finding skeins that weren’t 400 yds (enough for a pair of socks, but too much for a couple of argyle diamonds) was a challenge in 2009.\u00a0 Allison’s booth was a revelation to me, an answer to prayer.<\/p>\n

SSYC<\/a> carries lots of sock yarn.<\/p>\n

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Lots of Very Good Sock yarn.\u00a0 But for Annetarsia purposes, go straight to the page for Simply Sock Yarn, solids<\/a>.\u00a0 175 yds, 61 very nice colors to choose from (good luck making a decision), and the yarn quality is terrific.\u00a0 SSY became my favorite yarn for argyles, and I knit a bunch of them with it.\u00a0 Whatever the mood I was in, I could build it from her color set.\u00a0 Springtime, Gothic, Patriotic, you name it – she has the colors to make it happen.\u00a0 Shipping is no charge when you spend $85, which is enough to get you a fair stash to draw from. Unless you get stuck on wanting one of every shade of a certain color.\u00a0 Trust me, choosing is tough (or, is that just me?\u00a0 Am I the only one who wants every color available of everything? Sigh.)<\/p>\n

Allison didn’t make it to Sock Summit in 2011.\u00a0 I think she was busy having a baby, or something. Fine, it was a good excuse.\u00a0 Taking pity on me, she sent me a bunch of color cards to hand out to students. SSY continues to be a super choice for Argyle socks that are traditional, but updated.\u00a0 Argyle knitters of the 1950’s would never believe such color possibilities existed.\u00a0 They probably only had about 8 colors to choose from – if that.<\/p>\n

I didn’t put any argyle sock patterns in “Annetarsia Knits”<\/a> , but I did use SSY for one of my favorite designs in the book, the Namanu shawl<\/a> – otherwise known as the “Paperdoll shawl”.\u00a0 I’ll blog more about the design, later.\u00a0 But, the dolls were created from leftover SSY from my Argyle stash!\u00a0 I had to order some yarn for the MC, but the dolls were stash-busters!\u00a0 \"Namanu<\/a> \"Namanu<\/a><\/p>\n

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In other news:<\/p>\n

The Oaks Park Sock<\/a> landed in Ravelry’s Hot Right Now list!\u00a0 Whoo hoo!<\/p>\n

I’m getting lots of notifications that you are pre-ordering the book<\/a> and pdf, and signing up for “Next Steps in Intarsia”<\/a> on Craftsy.\u00a0 Click on the link to get $10 off the enrollment fee!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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