About Knitting Socks with Handpainted Yarn

Join author Carol Sulcoski as she explores handpainted sock yarns in Knitting Socks with Handpainted Yarn (Interweave, Fall 2008.) Carol delves into handpainted yarns and divulges its secrets, how to make the best of these much-loved yarns, and how to knit socks with success with 20 new and original patterns designed just with these yarns in mind.

In Knitting Socks with Handpainted Yarn you’ll learn:

• How to design projects around handpainted yarns versus other types of yarns.
  
  
• The difference between various handpainted yarns.
  
  
• How to avoid the pitfalls of pooling and splotching with handpainted yarns.
  
  
• How to combine multicolored handpaints with other types of yarns.
  
  
• And more.

Combining her handdyeing and knitwear designing knowledge, Carol shares techniques and tips to help every sock knitter turn out fabulous footwear. Fun, original sock patterns from a variety of contributors illustrate these techniques. The patterns are written for widely-available handdyed yarns so you can get the same results, but you will also learn to identify patterns for their unique yarns.

Paperbound, 8˝ x 9, 128 pages
50 photographs, 10 illustrations
ISBN 978-1-59668-098-2