{"id":1495,"date":"2013-03-10T21:07:09","date_gmt":"2013-03-10T18:07:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.chocolatemintsinajar.com\/craft\/?p=1495"},"modified":"2013-03-10T21:08:11","modified_gmt":"2013-03-10T18:08:11","slug":"what-to-knit-with-a-single-skein-of-handdyed-sock-yarn","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.chocolatemintsinajar.com\/craft\/2013\/03\/what-to-knit-with-a-single-skein-of-handdyed-sock-yarn\/","title":{"rendered":"What to knit with a single skein of handdyed sock yarn?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a title=\"HandDyed Yarn by ChocolateMintsInaJar, on Flickr\" href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/chocolatemintsinajar\/8545666658\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" alt=\"HandDyed Yarn\" src=\"http:\/\/farm9.staticflickr.com\/8231\/8545666658_356b65997c.jpg\" width=\"500\" height=\"333\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>I have four very beautiful skeins of hand dyed yarn.\u00a0 So beautiful in fact, that I am having trouble winding them into balls, let alone knitting them up.\u00a0 But, at the end of the day it is just yarn, right? Right? Just say it is.<\/p>\n<p>I asked ravelry and very pretty things came up<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.chocolatemintsinajar.com\/craft\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/03\/Screen-Shot-2013-03-10-at-9.00.59-PM.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-1498\" alt=\"Screen Shot 2013-03-10 at 9.00.59 PM\" src=\"http:\/\/www.chocolatemintsinajar.com\/craft\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/03\/Screen-Shot-2013-03-10-at-9.00.59-PM-300x144.png\" width=\"300\" height=\"144\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.chocolatemintsinajar.com\/craft\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/03\/Screen-Shot-2013-03-10-at-9.00.59-PM-300x144.png 300w, https:\/\/www.chocolatemintsinajar.com\/craft\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/03\/Screen-Shot-2013-03-10-at-9.00.59-PM-1024x493.png 1024w, https:\/\/www.chocolatemintsinajar.com\/craft\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/03\/Screen-Shot-2013-03-10-at-9.00.59-PM-150x72.png 150w, https:\/\/www.chocolatemintsinajar.com\/craft\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/03\/Screen-Shot-2013-03-10-at-9.00.59-PM-400x192.png 400w, https:\/\/www.chocolatemintsinajar.com\/craft\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/03\/Screen-Shot-2013-03-10-at-9.00.59-PM.png 1175w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.chocolatemintsinajar.com\/craft\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/03\/Screen-Shot-2013-03-10-at-9.01.11-PM.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-1499\" alt=\"Screen Shot 2013-03-10 at 9.01.11 PM\" src=\"http:\/\/www.chocolatemintsinajar.com\/craft\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/03\/Screen-Shot-2013-03-10-at-9.01.11-PM-300x145.png\" width=\"300\" height=\"145\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.chocolatemintsinajar.com\/craft\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/03\/Screen-Shot-2013-03-10-at-9.01.11-PM-300x145.png 300w, https:\/\/www.chocolatemintsinajar.com\/craft\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/03\/Screen-Shot-2013-03-10-at-9.01.11-PM-1024x496.png 1024w, https:\/\/www.chocolatemintsinajar.com\/craft\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/03\/Screen-Shot-2013-03-10-at-9.01.11-PM-150x72.png 150w, https:\/\/www.chocolatemintsinajar.com\/craft\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/03\/Screen-Shot-2013-03-10-at-9.01.11-PM-400x193.png 400w, https:\/\/www.chocolatemintsinajar.com\/craft\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/03\/Screen-Shot-2013-03-10-at-9.01.11-PM.png 1162w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.chocolatemintsinajar.com\/craft\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/03\/Screen-Shot-2013-03-10-at-9.00.39-PM.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-1497\" alt=\"Screen Shot 2013-03-10 at 9.00.39 PM\" src=\"http:\/\/www.chocolatemintsinajar.com\/craft\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/03\/Screen-Shot-2013-03-10-at-9.00.39-PM-300x145.png\" width=\"300\" height=\"145\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.chocolatemintsinajar.com\/craft\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/03\/Screen-Shot-2013-03-10-at-9.00.39-PM-300x145.png 300w, https:\/\/www.chocolatemintsinajar.com\/craft\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/03\/Screen-Shot-2013-03-10-at-9.00.39-PM-1024x498.png 1024w, https:\/\/www.chocolatemintsinajar.com\/craft\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/03\/Screen-Shot-2013-03-10-at-9.00.39-PM-150x72.png 150w, https:\/\/www.chocolatemintsinajar.com\/craft\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/03\/Screen-Shot-2013-03-10-at-9.00.39-PM-400x194.png 400w, https:\/\/www.chocolatemintsinajar.com\/craft\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/03\/Screen-Shot-2013-03-10-at-9.00.39-PM.png 1174w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a>The links for the searches {<a href=\"http:\/\/rav.to\/YUyIqA\">http:\/\/rav.to\/YUyIqA<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/rav.to\/WCw4eR\">http:\/\/rav.to\/WCw4eR<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/rav.to\/ZcvZLn\">http:\/\/rav.to\/ZcvZLn<\/a>}<\/p>\n<p>In general you need to look for patterns that will use the colors to their best advantage, stitches like moss, garter and slipped stitches usually work really nicely with hand dyed yarns.\u00a0 Also look at the length of the color repeats, are they really short, long or just medium? Try a test swatch to see how many stitches before the colors change, try an large scale swatch if you are still unsure.<\/p>\n<p>Most sock yarn skeins are 400 yards, that is enough to knit a small shawl, socks, hats, baby items and little toys.<\/p>\n<p>Be brave, after all it is beautiful yarn that will be fun and enjoyable to knit.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I have four very beautiful skeins of hand dyed yarn.\u00a0 So beautiful in fact, that I am having trouble winding them into balls, let alone knitting them up.\u00a0 But, at the end of the day it is just yarn, right? Right? Just say it is. I&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ghostkit_customizer_options":"","ghostkit_custom_css":"","ghostkit_custom_js_head":"","ghostkit_custom_js_foot":"","ghostkit_typography":"","_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[129,30,79],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1495","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-crochet-yarning","category-knitting","category-yarn"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p10SDt-o7","jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.chocolatemintsinajar.com\/craft\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1495","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.chocolatemintsinajar.com\/craft\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.chocolatemintsinajar.com\/craft\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.chocolatemintsinajar.com\/craft\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.chocolatemintsinajar.com\/craft\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1495"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.chocolatemintsinajar.com\/craft\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1495\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1501,"href":"https:\/\/www.chocolatemintsinajar.com\/craft\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1495\/revisions\/1501"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.chocolatemintsinajar.com\/craft\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1495"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.chocolatemintsinajar.com\/craft\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1495"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.chocolatemintsinajar.com\/craft\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1495"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}