Madelinetosh's Tosh Sock

It's been MONTHS, but our order of Madelinetosh Tosh Sock is here! It's been like five months or so since we have gotten a nice restock of this yarn due to pandemic related mill closers and import issues and it's finally here. Gosh, all this color makes me happy.

We have more than 200 colors in stock right now, and this includes previously discontinued color that the new owners of Madelinetosh brought back last year. So if you've been waiting on Betty Draper Blues, Mansfield Garden Party, Gilded, Cherry, William Morris, and more, you'll find them. And if you need help choosing color for a project or making sure that colors go together as well as Outlander and Nocturne above or Manatee and Sideshow (new hues) below, just e-mail me as usual and ask. We are always happy to help!

I want to share that I take a lot of time and effort to take new photos with new batches/lots of hand dyed yarn. Sometimes colors like Tart or Onyx don't need rephotoed. But more often than not, the skeins look different enough when they arrive that I rephoto the yarn myself. I want you to receive yarn that looks as much like what you expect as I can. Of course, if we get 20 skeins of something and the picture can show just three, there could be differences in a hand made item you receive. But I think that most knitters understand the limitations of ordering hand dyed yarn online.

Here's an example of the differences one can see in just one colorway. Above is the new photo I took of our latest batch of Tosh Sock in Rosehipster in diffused natural light. Below is the photo from our last batch.

Now if you saw the top picture and were expecting a large amount of speckles across the entire skein, but instead got a skein from the photo below, wouldn't you be a bit miffed? I would. To me, they are very different colors. But this is the nature of hand dyed yarn that is basically a fiber artist's canvas. Depending on who is doing the dye mixing, the speckling and such, you could get a different skein. And it's my job to do my best to show you the most accuare representation of what I have.

I know a lot of sellers don't see it that way. Most simply use the photos that a dyer provides to them - it's often years old and sometimes even on a different yarn base. Sometimes it's so small that you can't even see the whole skein but just a few inches. But I do take pride in providing the best photos I'm able to, and I hope it shows.

Comments

[Denise]

Thank you. I have found your color match up to the actual yarn very accurate. I appreciate the extra time you take to make that happen. :)

[Megan]

I really appreciate the time you take with photos! I’ve never received something from SSYC that made me think “huh, that’s not the color I expected at all.”

(And arghhhh to those who only photograph part of a skein! There’s a dyer whose work I love, but on their webste they photograph one end of the skein with the rest blurry. Why??)

[Donna]

I for one appreciate it.

[Angeli]

I am so glad that you do this for customers that have to buy online, it's the same as speaking truth. There is nothing more maddening then receiving a long anticipated yarn (most likely to be used for a project)with such color variation that does not fit in the definition of variation of hand dyed yarn. The top speckled pink is not the same as the bottom pink just by name sake, a little quality control is necessary to ensure the customers expectation. Thank you for your extraordinary effort to show yarns as they are, and to assure us buying what we see.

[Kristi]

I appreciate the effort you put into taking pictures of all the new yarn that comes in. I do most of my yarn shopping online, and have been disappointed more than once (from other online shops) when the yarn didn't look like what I thought I was ordering. Thank you!!