Like I teased yesterday and earlier in March, we have a very lovely batch of Madelinetosh's Euro Sock for you for 25% off in our Sale Section! We have so much of it that I'll be releasing it in three batches over this month on Tuesdays. Approx 60 colors each week over the next few weeks for a total of 174 different colorways! We are releasing them in three batches because we are a small crew and can only handle so much. We like to ship out within 24 hours and while it might take a bit longer than that when we are super busy, we don't like to stray too far from our high expectations of ourselves.
Mermaids Unite
Euro Sock is a very popular, 100% superwash merino wool option for socks, shawls, sweaters and more. It's soft, durable and takes the dye beautifully. Each hand dyed skein is a little treasure. One is enough for socks, even for my size 11 feet. Grab several if you want to knit a sweater or shawl. Grab a dozen if you want to stash it because Madelinetosh has decided to retire this base and it won't be available much longer. A lot has changed in the past two years with mills, importing, availability and especially pricing. And this yarn just isn't one that can keep going at a reasonable cost any more.
A Dream Within a Dream

What should you knit with it? Well, I'm knitting a plain ol' vanilla pair of socks with my skein of Dream Within a Dream right now. I wanted to see what a highly variegated color like this with color, white spots and speckles would knit up in a sock, and so I chose this one. It's for someone who I know will appreciate some socks, and I love how it's knitting up. Such a pleasure.
So if you wanted to see how a variegated hue might knit up, I think it's a good example. Other wildly variegated hues I have for you today in the Sale Yarn section are A Clue Board, Fire Opal, Heart of Darkness, Mansfield Garden Party, Mermaids Unite, Northeast Kingdom, Rainbow, and When Particles Collide. So if you're like me, and you like the skeins that are definitely NOT shy flowers, give these a try.
Want to combine colors into a project? I like the Alisa Cowl that recently came out.
Levity Shawl photo, courtesy of Kelly McClure
Want a nice sized shawl that has lots of garter stitch? Grab two skeins and knit the Levity Shawl! I love the idea of this in Wildflower, Worn Denim, Wash House and especially Pardon My French, below. LOVE.

SSYC shop manager Heather knit this Minerals shawl with three skeins of Euro Sock. And it looks like the Minerals Shawl is 40% off right now too. Sale yarn and sale pattern! Woot!

Heather knit this amazing shawl and instead of using one color of worsted weight like the pattern calls for, she used three colors of fingering weight Euro Sock and wanted to share these notes on how she changed the pattern to suit her yarn/color choices.
So, I had 3 colors, let's call them Color 1, 2, and 3.
To begin with, I started with 2 strands of color 1, from the inside and outside of the ball. I knitted about 2 inches like that (mostly I change color when I get bored and want to change something up.) So then I drop the strand of color 1 from the outside of the ball, and pick up a strand of color 2. Apparently I really liked the look of that combo, because I knitted about 7 inches of that. (measured down the middle spine) Then I dropped color 1, and picked up a second strand of color 2. Two strands of color 2 for about 4 inches. Remember, the rows get much longer towards the end, and that makes a difference!
Then I dropped the outside of the ball strand of color 2 and picked up color 3. That section is about 2.5 inches, as I think I was running low on color 2. Then I dropped color 2 and picked up a second strand of color 3. I knit the rest of the body of the shawl with 2 strands of color 3.
When I got to the garter edging at the end, I dropped a strand of color 3 and picked up a strand of color 1. knit garter edging.
I did the edging like that because I wanted my tassels to have all three of the yarns, and I wanted that to blend into the rest of the shawl. If the edging was all color 3, it would have been an abrupt change to the multi colored tassels.


So if you want to do something similar, please do! If you have questions about whether the colors you're going with for that pattern or anything else, you know you can always e-mail me, Allison, at service@simplysockyarn.com and we're happy to be your personal shoppers, look at your choices in person and assure you that they are awesome or suggest something else. Include links to patterns if you want us to give you more particular help.
If you want a jumping off point for color combos, here are some color combos that caught my eye as I was photographing all this yarn. As you may know, photographing all our yarn for SSYC is one of my jobs, and it could be my fave. I photo each batch that arrives that's different so that what you see on our website isn't some old stock photo from a dyer from three years ago. Yes, it takes a lot of time and effort to constantly change and update photos, but it's how we've been doing things for 17 years now and I don't see that changing. And usually while I'm photographing skeins, I can't help but combine them and share what I like with you. Sometimes here on the blog, sometimes on Instagram.
Again, all these colors can be found in our Sale Yarn section until they sell out.
Fire Opal with Cardigan. If you want to add a third color, consider Elizabeth Taylor
Gracenotes, Neon Red and Leopard
Great Grey Owl, Sabine, Killing Me Softly and Wino Forever
Northeast Kingdom with Winter Wheat. Also would be fab with Glazed Pecan and Daffodil and Pardon My French.
Scout, Porter, Whiskey Barrel and Great Grey Owl.
Wetever, Wild West and Scout
Wildflower, Scout and Winter Wheat. I love this combo for Heather's shawl above. LOVE.
Again, I'll be listing more colors on the next two Tosh Tuesdays, so if there's a color you're hoping we'll have for you, you're welcome to e-mail. If there is a color you really want from this week, I don't recommend hesitating or waiting to see what else is coming next week because I do expect a lot or most of these to sell out each week before the next batch is listed. We do have a lot of each color, but if a couple people purchase sweater quantities, then it's pretty much gone. And this is delicious for sweaters, that's for sure.