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NEW Dream in Color Smooshy & Starry!

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Dream in Colour Smooshy – $24.65
Smooshy is like Dream in Color’s Classy but skinnier – like its supermodel cousin. It’s soft and purty, just like all of the other Dreams in Colour, is a fingering weight/sock yarn, and washable.

  • 450 yards/410m – approx 100g
  • 6.5 to 8 sts. per inch
  • 2.5mm to 3mm needles

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Dream in Color Starry – $28.50
Ooooo, it’s sparkly! But not too much, it’s not named ‘Blingy’. A hint of glimmer makes this yarn resemble a starry sky.  I’m in magpie city! Starry is Smooshy’s rock star cousin – it’s still washable sock yarn, it’s just got a glint of glimmer.

  • 450 yards/410m – approx 100g
  • 6.5 to 8 sts. per inch
  • 2.5mm to 3mm needles


Project Idea: Citron Scarf/Shawlette (only takes 1 skein). You can also use any of our project suggestions from our latest Misti Hand Paint Sock Posting!

New Book: Sock Club


Sock Club: Join the Knitting Adventure  $29.95
This book consists of 23 patterns from private micro yarn dyers’ sock clubs –  so basicalls these are patterns that you would only have had access to if you were a paying member of the club. You get a great selection of niiiiiiice sock patterns in a variety of styles and yarns. I’m not a sock knitter but there are some very pretty lace, cables and ribs for your tender tootsies! There are a few simpler patterns, but this book is really geared towards the technical sock knitter.

NEW Misti Alpaca Handpaint Sock Yarns


16 Venecia


20 Slippery Jake

NEW Misti Alpaca Handpaint Sock Yarns
A couple of great new colours of Misti Alpaca Handpaint Sock Yarn have arrived! If you haven’t already acquainted yourself with Misti’s Yarn it’s happy stuff! It is soft, beautifully hand dyed, affordable at only $20, and made from nice fibres like alpaca, merino wool, silk. The colours are not inclined to pool because Misti takes a great amount of effort in their dyeing, as they say it is ‘Dyed to the Stitch.” Here are the stats and FREE PATTERN IDEAS follow below:

  • Made in Peru
  • 50% Alpaca, 30% Merino Wool, 10% Silk, 10% Nylon
  • 100g/400m
  • 1 skein is enough for a pair of socks, mitts, gloves or a hat
  • 2 skeins are more than enough for a baby sweater

FREE Sockhead Hat Pattern

FREE Old Shale Scarf

  • 2 Skeins for a proper, long scarf, 1 skein for a shortie
  • 3.75mm to 4mm needles

New Books!


       Knitted Socks East and West by Judy Sumner


    One More Skein by Leigh Radford


      Cardigans by Louisa Harding


Noro by Cornelia Tuttle Hamilton


Men’s Knits by Erica Knight