Hello and welcome to the 2023 Sock Knitter’s Almanach, June edition.
For the new kids on the block, the Sock Knitter’s Almanac is Tricot & Stitch’s monthly colorway creation, which started in January 2021. Each month I’m creating a new colorway. Three-month subscriptions are now available in the shop!
Come and join me in a dark and mysterious ambiance with this month colorway, inspired by fairy tales such as Grimm’s, Shadow and Bone, Once Upon A Time… The moodboard is both wonderful and strange.
“Fairy Tale” starts with a grey base on which I layered several shades of gray (not fifty, mind you, just five or six, ah ah). Then I added a strong layer of speckles, with blood red in the lead. Did I mention the inspiration was dark and mysterious? Not your Tinkle Bell kind of Fairy Tale, rather Witcher-type. The companion colorway this month is a gorgeous light gray with subtle beige nuances and strong black speckles. I named it “Moon Child”. I could totally have named it “Geralt’s hair”, now that I think of it.
Preorders for both colorways are open in my Etsy shop across all bases and will ship within the next 4 to 5 weeks. Both are coming with me to Porto to the Knit With Friends festival on June 3rd and 4th.
The pattern suggestion for June will enable to explore an alternative sock construction. The Skew socks by Lana Holden were published in 2009 in Knitty as a free pattern. Quote from the pattern page on Ravelry: “Handpainted or self-striping yarns are particularly suitable for this design, as they will highlight the unusual stitch direction flow.” So let’s give it a try!
Check out today’s podcast episode to see the month colorway live! You can shop the preorders on Etsy by clicking the box below. Thanks!