The Ecoyarns Sock Club

I joined up for Ecoyarns Tofutsies sock club. There is a new yarn every two months with a new pattern. I received my first ball of yarn with the pattern to knit on Monday, I only signed up last Thursday. There is a yahoo group where the sock designers hang out, which will be handy for any support needed with a pattern. In total there are 6 yarns and patterns. The sock club is open to 10 people only and as of 21 September it is now closed. I could have been the last to join after reading about it on fitknits blog.

I read through the pattern last night, not something I would usually do, but after some mishaps because I don't read a pattern first I thought I would. A turkish cast on - help.... I will have to google that one. The first pattern is a toe up, never done that..... first time for everything I guess and on size one circular's , well back to shopping for those, the ones I have used in the past are size 2.25mm.

I will post a picture of yarn and pattern soon. Here is some info about the yarn from the ecoyarns site.

TOFUTSIES
ToFutsies is our NEW Sock yarn. Not meant only for socks, it is a soft 4 ply yarn with an unusual content. 50% superwash wool, 25% SOYSILK, 22.5% Cotton and 2.5% CHITIN. It is interchangeable with many of the current sock yarns available now eg OPAL, Lana Grossa etc. Chitin is made from crab and shrimp shells and is a poly saccharide found in nature and fully biodegradable. It is perfectly suited to socks as it has anti odour, anti bacterial and wound healing properties.

I did a bit more knitting on the baby jumper in Shepherd yarn - well I have forgot the name, I will check that out later and let you know. No I just remembered, Pipkin, nice yarn, I am finding it a bit slow on knitting stitches it seems to stick a bit on the needles and it can break apart a bit so you get a single thread sitting there, of, just knit that with the next stitch, afterall it is only in stocking stitch, not noticeable and it is on 6mm needles. It does however knit up quick being a bit on the chuncky side, say around a thick 8ply or so.