Calcareous
Calcareous is live, click here if you’d like to make yourself a pair, or to find out what I meant by yesterday’s crack about my misspent youth.
I also have the distinct pleasure of announcing that Sharon at Three Irish Girls has graciously agreed to donate a skein of the gorgeous Adorn Sock yarn I used to make these socks to one lucky reader!
Now lately, I’ve had the marvelous experience of being contacted by several talented yarn dyers asking me to design patterns for them. This has been (and continues to be) great fun, but that’s not what happened here. Here, I saw the Three Irish Girls yarn at Sock Summit, fell madly in love, and simply had to have it. There was no other choice, it had to be mine. I got it home, and turned it into socks as quickly as possible. Calcareous is the result.
Once they were finished, I gathered up my courage, showed a picture of them to Sharon, and asked if maybe just maybe she’d be willing to donate a skein of the yarn to the blog. She said yes, so now I get to share the fun of this yarn with one of you!
So here’s the plan. I’m hooked and will have to knit with this yarn again. The only difficulty is picking a colorway. So, if you want to be entered for a chance to win the yarn, go to Three Irish Girls, look at the lovely colors, and leave a post here telling me which one I should knit with next. I’ll leave the comments open till about noon eastern time, on Friday, October 23. Later on Friday, I’ll randomly pick a winner from the comments and email that person with more information.
EDIT: Don’t forget that you need to mention one of Three Irish Girl’s colorways to qualify for the drawing…Some of the comments haven’t, and I thought I’d mention it again to be sure!
ETA: Closing comments now, will come back later to post the winner!
Oh Hunter…. I’ve been watching this pattern for awhile…. I LOVE it!!.. Wish I had known about test knitting when you first did this pattern.
I’ve been eyeing up Grady…
Hunter, beautiful pattern. You need to knit with Roisin next. What a gorgeous color.
Hi I love your work am looking forward to the purple sock ohlala. I think you should use the color QUINN spring and easter will be here soon.
Shelda
Lovely sock! I vote for Rhiannon next.
I love the Irish Sea colorway!
Calcareous is such an elegant pattern. I will add it to my queue.
Love the sock – how about Elsbeth? 🙂
i have never had the pleasure of playing with yarn from “three irish girls.” keeping fingers, eyes, and whatever crossed.
You can never go wrong with green so how about some Irish Sea. See, I told you, you were/are a great designer. Now everyone wants you!! ;0)
I, also, think you should knit the next pair with Rhiannon.
Some many beautiful choices, but Rhiannon stood out the most to me.
Emer is absolutely gorgeous, I love super pale colorways lately… must be the anticipation of snow!
My vote’s for Brennan – a cozy colour for fall.
I adore the Liam, with the warm colors of browns and soft blue, ideal colors for those winter months ahead and looks like it would be a beautiful choice for a newly designed sock pattern.
Judith
Pretty socks. I am kind of loving Skye
My favourite at the moment is Irish Sea. I adore Sharon’s work – she’s an absolute genius.
I vote for Three Irish Girl’s SHANNON. I
knit the Brigit socks with Shannon on the Adorn base, and the cables just popped. The color shown on 3IG webite is not as emerald green as Shannon really is!
What a great pattern!
I love all of the 3IG colors, but I’ve been eying Nial lately. I think you should give that one a try.
I Love these socks!! I think Maura is the bomb. I looked for Quinn since that is my maiden name but couldnt find it :S.
Choosing just one of Sharon’s gorgeous colorways is very difficult! But, I would love to see something in Madigan. It’s such a unique colorway.
I think you should work with Niall. The blues and purples are yummy!
Lovely socks, and Maura is one of my favorite colorways from Three Irish Girls. I think you should try Cameron next; it’s got such rich, warm colors.
Oh, I also have to “vote” for Roison! I seem to be in a solids mood, as I’m looking at them. Gah, what gorgeous colors! And I’m thrilled to see Calcareous show up.
My vote is for Maeve. I love it!
I love your sock – you did a great design job and the yarn matches the pattern very well.