Sock Summit 2009 Dye for Glory Voting Booth

Find this yarn at Sock Summit - booth #315!

An amazing number of knitting rock stars will be attending Sock Summit – and I know that we are all anxiously anticipating meeting them. But let’s not forget that every sock knitter has their own rock star moment. Perhaps it’s the moment you decided to knit a colorwork sock, or when you added an intricate cable twisting across the palate of your foot. Maybe it’s using a needle below a 0 to get perfect gauge. It could even be completing your first sock.

I’m dedicating this colorway to you and your own rock star moment in sock knitting…because every sock knitter is a SockStar.

Inspiration
This colorway is inspired by the socks in the Sock Summit logo. It has a companion colorway in cool hues. I chose the component colors with enough contrast so that the two colorways could be easily combined for two color knitting.

Skein Details
This skein is a work of art in its own right. Every skein is a challenge for me to dye – containing 8 separate colors and requiring 3 different dye techniques to create.

Hand Painting
First, half of the skein is hand painted with 3 – 4 inch sections of color. I designed the colors to flow easily into each other, and the two dyes meld into new hues where they meet. Once the colors are painted on, the skein is heated for the first time to set the dye.

Wine – a very intense, cool red. Not quite as burgundy as a Merlot – more like the clarity of a Shiraz.
Fire Red – imagine the screaming red of a sports car as it zips down the road on a hot summer’s day.
Carrot Orange – an intense, clear orange. Delicious and ripe.
Marigold – Nothing in the garden shines out quite like a Marigold. No apologies are made for the brilliance of their golden shine.
Prussian Blue – a counter point to the warmth. It intensifies the warmth of the rest of skein by it’s contradiction.

Kettle Dye
Next, the blank half of the skein is placed into the kettle with enough water to cover it. Then the base layer of clear Golden Oak is applied and heated until the water clears. Once the water is clear, the heat is momentarily turned off.

Water Coloring
Then, a mild Bark Brown is splashed across the surface of the water to filter down onto the skein. The water disperses the dye over the skein in unpredictable ways, but because the water is hot the dye immediately sets when it reaches the yarn. After a few minutes this water color technique is repeated with Marigold. The heat is turned back on for a few minutes until the water runs clear.

Lastly, the entire skein is steam set to ensure a perfect setting of dye. We don’t want bring red fingers when we’re knitting, now do we?

Knitting This Yarn
This yarn will have a strong tendency to pool because of the long stretch of ecru. Depending upon the circumference of the garment and your gauge, you may even achieve faux striping – very skinny stripes of ecru set off by small pops of intense color.

Patterns
Choose a simple pattern and let the yarn do the work for you. Stockinette, garter, and simple slipped stitch patterns will look best. Avoid lace, cable and other intricate details. The business of the color will cause these details to recede into the knitted fabric.

Availability
This yarn will be available at the show in limited quantity on all Yarn Love fingering, sport and DK weight yarns, as well as on both of our hand spinning fibers. If there is demand we will happily sell this colorway through our regular retailers after the show.

For the mosaic section of the Dye For Glory contest, I give you Mallow Bits. Those bags of tiny marshmallows that are a rainbow of colors reminded us of baby’s layette, and from that came this beautiful flavor!

This yarn will be available at Sock Summit 2009 in booth 1115

This is Frisky sheep it is bold and striking with deep browns, warm purple and turquoise and popping pink. It will be available at the yarny-goodness booth #417 at sock summit and also as a pre-order at www.valutree.etsy.com

This is my entry for Dyed For Glory. I used most of the logo colors but wanted it to be just alittle different, so I placed the colors so they would RUN together and create wonderful new colors that ran THROUGH IT. A friend then suggested the name and it was a fit! It’s what we will all be doing very soon, RUN into sock summit, learn, shop, eat, make new friends and come away like A RIVER RAN THROUGH IT! I’m in booth 526 & 528 (booth # change). I will have this yarn for sale. SW Merino 75/25 Nylon, 450 yds.
The colors are more on the primary side rather than on the purple, pink side. What great fun it was!!!
You can pre-order and I will bring it to the show or I can also ship. Leave a message here on Ravelry or contact me at my email bakinbabes@yahoo.com

If I can’t bring a little Philly myself, I will send a little Philly to the Sock Summit. Broad Street Strut is inspired by the famous Philadelphia Mummers Parade, held on January 1 of each year. If a parade is so wild that it makes otherwise mild-mannered, macho guys dress in spangles and eyeshadow, it deserves its own colorway, no?

Available at the WEBS Sock Summit booth.

This yarn is part of a batch of dyeing inspired by Harry Potter’s London.

I wanted this to reflect the explosion of colour described in the book, and the cheeky personalities of the Weasley twins.

This yarn is dyed in very short repeats of colour - about 8-10 stitches on standard sock needles. This means that it should be possible - perhaps with a little bit of fiddling - to avoid pooling.

Our submission in the Sock Summit - Dye For Glory category: Mosaic

Available at multiple vendors at Sock Summit and everywhere this fall.

Naturally Dyed Sock yarn inspired by Arcade Fire’s “No Cars Go”. Available for purchase at Abundant Yarn & Dyeworks booth 506-508.

Sock Summit Dye for Glory submission – Mosaic Category. (Booth #315)

Dyed on our new Adorn Sock (available Fall 2009) in many shades of purple with accents of teal and mosaics of black, this yarn will knit up with lovely random variegation.

Available for pre-order now (here), and at our booth at Sock Summit.

I created this colorway to enter into the Sock Summit contest, Dye for Glory, in the mosaic category. I used the colors in the Sock Summit logo to influence this colorway. As I knit it, all I could think of was my close friend WonderMike. Hence the name Wonder Boy.

I used natural dyes to create this color: madder, acacia, logwood grey, indigo, weld, and cochineal. First, I dyed the yarn using shades of yellow and orange. Then, after dyeing the base, I dipped this 3/4 of the skein into a natural indigo vat. Because the first layer of dyes had many slight variations, once dipped in the indigo pot, we are left with many varying shades of blue, green, brown, and orange.

Available at Booth 503. See you at Sock Summit 2009!

Voting opens on July 23rd and ends August 1.

Sapphire Peacock Colorway for the Dye for Glory Challenge. Mosaic Division. Hand-painted with acid dyes in short sections of turquoise blues, royal purples, emerald greens, peridot yellow-greens & topaz browns. Available at the Knit-A-Bit booth #808 at Sock Summit.

One of my most popular colorways is “Blue Peacock” and I have made many variations on the “peacock” theme. This is the turquoise/sapphire version of a peacock feather’s eye-which I find fascinating!

Descent is one of our colorways inspired by the upcoming Sock Summit! It will be for sale in The Unique Sheep booth (#1018). I have a feeling we will sell out pretty quickly, so you might want to pre-order a set from our website!

Thank you for those that placed orders from Lollipop Cabin during Sock Summit 2009! Your order is currently being dyed and will be shipped by the end of the month. All Dye for Glory colourways have be retired, with the exception of this one, Laying in the Autumn Leaves Along the Pacific Crest Trail will continue to be in production.

If you are interested in purchasing yarn from Lollipop Cabin, please ask your LYS to contact us regarding wholesale orders.

About the yarn: 400 yards of organic wool sock yarn. Each skein is one-of-a-kind, individually hand-dyed in a wee little cabin with collected rain water from the Pacific Northwest Cascade Mountains.

400 yards of organic wool sock yarn. Each skein is one-of-a-kind, individually hand-dyed in a wee little cabin with collected rain water from the Pacific Northwest Cascade Mountains.

Submitting for Dye for Glory contest in ‘Mosaic’ catagory.
Mai Gecko, let me show you it.

Yarn can be found in my booth, number 125 at Sock Summit - see you there!

The Sunny Feet Summit Series was inspired by a memory of the Portland area in 1994 when I climbed Mt St Helens. I have distinct memories of seeing the local mountains from St Helens, including Rainier, Hood, Adams, Jefferson. I and not completely sure that all are visible from there, but there have since been other trips to the Northwest in which the mountains have figured prominently.
Every skein in the Summits Series is focused on one of these mountains, filling the desire for a number of colorways that are also more masculine and relate to camouflage.

ST Helens is a primarily green colorway reminiscent not only of the gravel cone that rises above the tree line, but also of the trees at night as we descended from the peak. It was solar dyed with low impact dyes to produce an interesting mosaic effect.
This yarn will be available at Fibers Grass Valley booth #305.