Dippers (plus giveaway)
So you know the chat we were having about how to make your more opinionated yarns behave themselves? Well allow me to show you how that looks in practice! These are Dippers, and they’re out today (and 10% off with the code BEHAVE).
These were one of the very first sock patterns I ever released way back in early 2009. Then, some time five or six years ago, I got to feeling a little shy about the photos and formatting of those earliest patterns, so I took them down. The patterns themselves were lovely…the pictures weren’t. But I didn’t like having the patterns hidden away on my hard drive, so I’ve been bringing them back out as time allows. And I’m delighted to have Dippers back out now!
The stitch pattern on these really is magic at breaking up the color on yarn. You’ve got the general swoopy goodness that happens when you put decreases on the edges and send matching increases tromping merrily down the middle. But you’ve also got those lovely little coiled stitches (so much fun to do…really they’re nifty) to move things around even more. The combo is delightful with yarn that would otherwise flash and pool. I mean of course it looks lovely on solid colored yarn too…but then again so does most everything!
I’ve got a skein of this yarn (Blue Moon Fiber Arts’ Socks that Rock Lightweight in Beach Pebbles) to give away to someone who might like to make a pair of their own. Now…full disclosure…the yarn came to me before it had an official tag on it. So I’ll totally write the info I have about it on a card and send it along, but it won’t have the proper label you’re used to. But as long as you’re cool with that, all is well!
To enter, just leave a comment on this post telling me the most colorful yarn you’ve ever knit with. There are no right or wrong answers, I just like to hear what’s finding its way onto your needles!
And I can’t send yarn to everyone, but I can give everyone a little discount on the pattern. If you use the code BEHAVE, you’ll get 10% off Dippers on ravelry.
Comments left between now and the end of the day (eastern time) Friday, November 30, 2018 will be entered to win. I’ll pick a winner, contact them to get their addresses, and arrange to send the yarn their way. Be sure to use a real email address so I can contact you if you’ve won (I won’t do anything with those email addresses besides notify the winner). If I do email you, I need to hear back from you within 72 hours or I will pick a new winner and contact them. This is open to adults anywhere in the world, but I need a US mailing address to send yarn to.
I think the most colorful yarn I’ve knit with is some hand dyed sock yarn from the lemonade shop in the kitchen sink color…
Beautiful pattern. 🙂 The most colorful socks I’ve knit are also STR lightweight in Candy Corn. The brightest oranges and yellows.
Its such a beautiful pattern. I hvad knit socks in a neon yellow with some black speckles.. Handdyed yarn
Amusingly the most colorful yarn I have worked with is a color way called Blending In made by indie dyer In Dyer Straits. It is beautiful but I have had such a terrible time finding a pattern that shows it off.
Thanks for the chance to win!
The best yarn I’ve knit with is a yarn I purchased at a fiber festival in Minneapolis a couple of years ago; it was 100% alpaca and it was the softest and warmest yarn. I made a shawl/wrap with it.
I’ve knit with so many bright colorful yarns. Fushia, poppy orange and harvest yellow are some of my favorite sock colors! There’s just something about taking off winter boots to reveal a bright shock of happy color! The greyer or whiter the day, all the better! Happy winter everyone!
The most colorful item I knitted was a cowl in Skyline Drive, Traveller by @dragonflyfibers. The pattern was by @louisetilbrookdesigns for the academy class.
I once knit a pair of socks with what I thought was the most beautiful skein of Socks that Rock (medium), in shades of pink and green. I even traded a more expensive skein of yarn to my guildmate because it was one of those specialty colorways. Well, now I have the most garish pair of socks on the planet! I was shocked that beauty turned on me.
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Yarn dyed in the colors of a Friedensreich Hundertwasser painting was, by far, the most colorful yarn I’ve ever knit with. I usually prefer solids and semi-solids, but a colorway pulled from a painting with a palette carefully assembled by an artist is a whole other thing.
probably yarn from a company called Red Sock Blue Sock, they have some neon stripes that are wild. Thanks.
That’s a lovely sock pattern. Your pictures totally do it justice now.
I believe that the most colorful yarn I’ve knit with is some locally hand dyed yarn. The color is called winter rainbow and it’s the most lovely vibrant rainbow with very short stripes. It’s so pretty. I bought the bulky base and made fingerless mitts for myself. And then I went back and bought a second skein and a skein of matching green tonal and made a stripped moebius cowl for myself. 🙂 It’s pretty much the only reason I’m glad winter has finally hit.
STR is a phenomenal yarn for socks because of the twist. While I’ve yet to knit up my skein of Sherbet, my socks in STR Fire on the Mountain are wildly colorful. I used a slip stitch pattern to break it up, and they are fun socks. 10 years and still holding up!
Your dippers are gorgeous…love that little coiled stitch!
I have some from Leon Alexander yarns in the color Up N Away that I just love to look at. Not sure I can find something to make that will suit all the colors.
The most colorful yarn that I have used may have been when I knit with that rainbow yarn that we all learned on – I knit a scarf for my father and the edges curled!! That must have been 55 years ago and they still make that yarn!! Hysterical! It would be much more fun to use your colorful skein and knit some special socks!
The most colorful yarn I’ve used is a bamboo/cotton yarn from Fiber Lady to make a Ponchini for my sister. It was coral, yellow, blue and green. I’ve only made a couple pairs of socks but those were in muted colors.
I made some socks from some really colorful Anothrr Crafty Girl yarn. I have some Tiny Toes that I just don’t know what to do with because of the colors- maybe Dippers will be it…!
I think one of the most colorful yarns I have ever knitted with is a skein of bright neon rainbow gradient skein by Apple Tree Farm yarns. i usually go toward the bright colors.
Currently working on sicks in an Indigo Dragonfly colorway :
Bright Lights, Big City, Busy Highway, Slow Unicorn.
It’s not bright at all and has kind of an asphalt grey base with smears of pink & blue, but the name makes me giggle.
I made a twisted single rib hat in international orange for our son who refused to wear it. I do not enjoy ribbing.
I don’t know what the brand was, but I used some *loud* rainbow-y yarn to make gloves about 10 years ago. That was before I really understood what color-changing yarns required. They looked like clown barf.
What beautiful socks in beautiful yarn. I made some socks in Regia Fluormania Neon Rainbow colorway. You can see them from space!
I think some of the most colorful yarn I’ve used so far was from lolodidit.com and called Droids. I used it along with a solid color to knit a shawl titled “Use the Force.” (Because it’s important to have a cozy wrap when watching a SW movie!) B-)
I have 2 favorites – Old Maiden Aunt 50/50 merino/silk fingering in a colorway called Bitter Bug, and Ancient Arts fingering in a colorway called Chocolate Lab.
I once used Miss Babs Keira in the colorway Good Morning Glory to knit a couple of Wee Liesls. They are super colorful little baby cardigans
The most colorful yarn (aside from box store yarn for making toys for kids in neon colors) was an indie dye yarn by Vivid Fiber Arts called Morning Glory. I made two different shawls with this colorway.