The Knitting Pirate

When I heard that Blue Moon Fiber Arts had added new colors, I went straight to the website to look at them. After a lot of back-and-forth, and some discussions with certain Enablers (notably Pirate-Husband, who laughed and told me to just buy the damned yarn already), I was still a little unsure about buying some Socks that Rock… and then I saw the name of one of the new colorways. Now tell me, how in hell was I supposed to resist a yarn named *Pirate’s Booty*? Really!

Of course, “you can’t buy just one.” And sock yarn doesn’t count as stash anyway, remember? Besides, it’s flat-rate shipping. So I picked another skein of lightweight in the “Moss Agate” colorway. There were a few others I was considering, but I decided to hold off for now…

At 360 yards, and with my size 10.5 feet, I think I may have to pre-split the yarn into two even balls per skein and then knit toe-up, just to be sure I get whole socks out of this. I’m eyeing the Wollmeise sock yarn for my next purchase. Shipping gets expensive, so maybe I’ll go in with someone on an order, but I hear they’re 150g skeins instead of 100, so you end up with 575 yards of the stuff!)