Seductive sock yarns!

Seductive Sock yarns are a tempting purchase. Since you only need one skein for a pair they make a good souvenir or impulse purchase. Give in to the temptation of gorgeous colour arrays. They don’t need to “go” with everything in your wardrobe or any other yarn in your stash. But it’s a good idea to pick your pattern carefully.

Don’t knit cables with a busy variegated yarn! The colour competes with the cable pattern. You lose the hard work you put in on the cable technique.  Plus I hate knitting cables 🙂

Be careful with detailed lace stitch patterns for the same reason. All your efforts evaporate when the colour takes centre stage.

Do try Noma Ndlovu’s Dambisa Socks It’s a perfect pattern for a more subtly variegated colourway like Adele in Proper Sock. Also good for speckles. And it comes with both written and charted instructions for the lace detail.

Noma Ndlovu of Bigger Than Life Hand Knits is also South African (whoop, whoop!) and has a lot of cute patterns in her Ravelry store.

And of course, browse our selection of Proper Sock colours and find the perfect one for your next project!

How to use a “busy” aka seductive sock yarn skein?

Find a less busy pattern that will show off those seductive sock yarns instead of competing with them!
Pick a simple sock pattern like Summer Lee’s I’m So Basic Socks. Here the colour can shine without the pattern getting in the way. Brighten things up or tone them down with heel and toe contrasts. Or sneak in a few stripes that pick out one of your variegated colour elements.
Any stitch texture or pattern is hard to see against a busy yarn colour backdrop. It’s a great time to practise your stocking stitch/stockinette and let the yarn do the work!

Happy sock knitting!