Dream in Color's New Assigned Pooling Skeins

This week, Dream in Color shipped their 12 new Assigned Pooling Collection colors to us. These are colors that have a pop of a contrasting color (a few inches of the 2-3 feet circumference of the skein) that is intended to make the popular "planned pooling" or "assigned pooling" knitting patterns POP. Now available on Smooshy Sock (fingering weight superwash merino and nylon) and Smooshy Cashmere (same yarn but with 10% cashmere - totally worth an extra few bucks, IMOH). Right now, they are all in the NEW section together so you can find them all together easier.

Field of Violets pattern, photo used with permission of Dream in Color

While I currently (as of typing this) have all 12 colors on Smooshy and Smooshy Cashmere, I know they are going to sell fast b/c I have received many e-mails asking when we are getting these. So you'll see some of the 12 disappear, but there's more coming our way in 2 weeks or less. And when those sell out, we'll get more and more, no worries! If you are missing a color you want, just e-mail me, Allison, at service@simplysockyarn.com and I'll try and notify you when more come in.

Pink Pop

Tuscan Sand

Violet Fields

Tip Top Tangerine

Terracotta Sky

Big Bang

Storm Berry

Misty Pines

Flash Bomb (my personal fave of all of these)

Gold Record Blues

Bali Woods (which immediately made me think of Thin Mints..... I must be snacky!)

Tiger Falls

All the photos are shown on Smooshy sock yarn, the merino/nylon blend. We also have all of them on Smooshy Cashmere. I simply am using the photos I took of Smooshy b/c they are on the diagonal, so show the ends a little better and that's often where the pops of color are. I photo the Smooshy Cashmere vertically b/c I want the photos to look slightly different so that the two yarns aren't mistaken for each other when you order. The color looks the same on both bases. It's also worth noting that if you're another craft supply shop reading this right now and really like my shop's images, they are the intellectual property of SSYC and not the property of Dream in Color. So don't steal them and use them on your website like two stores have done with Dream in Color photos in the past few months. I think it's b/c our Dream in Color photos are so much better than others' online, but we own them, and SSYC does defend all our intellectual property. Our customers tell us whenever they see our photos, and usually our attorney only deals with one or two shops a year for the past 17 years, but for some reason it's happened more in the past year. Let's do things honorably, y'all. And save us all $ on attorney fees. Mmmm-k? Thanks!!

If you want more assigned pooling pattern ideas. Dawn Barker makes a lot of great patterns, and I've blogged other yarn ideas before here. Definitely worth your time for some inspiration.

Comments

[MarthaO]

When did you stop putting your ID on your photos?

[Allison]

We still do on some. But Google docks websites and our rankings for having "overlay images" like watermarks. Sadly, we all live in Google's world now and have to do what they want to be ranked well their platform. It's an ever changing algorithm, but we do what we have to to keep up.
So it's easier for not-honorable businesses to steal some of our images, at least until I see it or someone tells us and we take care of it.

[Carol]

Would a an ID that is actually part of the picture work, or can that be photoshopped out? People stink sometimes! 😐 anyways also check out #assignedpooling on Instagram for other ideas to use this cool technique.

[Allison]

Yep, we've tried that, and another yarn shop (a formerly well known one too!) just cut around our water mark, leaving a white rectangle in the bottom right of the stolen photo. Odd but true. That was an easy one to prove, for sure. I mean, who does that? lol.