Finally using my homemade niddy noddy to get the kinks out of a sock blank. Using the pvc pipe means that I can get it wet without concern.

#knitting #lolabeanyarnco #sockblank #waxbean #niddynoddy

On today's schedule:

This colorful thing.

It looks finished right? It isn't.

It is a single strand of sock #yarn machine knitted into a rectangle, then hand dyed.

My job? To unravel one end of it, attach a #crochet hook to it, and create something completely different from it. 🧶

#sockblank #art

I plan to knit four inches so the brim is a solid brown, then continue the ribbing in helical knitting with the opposite end of the second strand. That's the blue end of the yarn on the winder at the back of these photos.

#RibbedCap #SockBlank #DyedBlank #MenWhoKnit #GayKnitter #RealMenKnit #DPNs

rest of the hat. This is the second strand (larger ball), and this is the first one I started with (smaller ball). So, now that I have recorded this and posted it, I can go knit decreases.

#RibbedCap #SockBlank #DyedBlank #MenWhoKnit #GuysWhoKnit #GayKnitter #RealMenKnit #DoublePointedNeedles #DPNs

Sooo when you unravel a knitted piece, the #yarn is very... um... kinky at first. I #crochet pretty tightly so I need my yarn to behave. I had to frog the #sockblank.

I have two of them; once I wound them into balls, they clearly needed new names.

On the left - Crime Scene
The right - Jack o'ween

I spent some time this weekend playing with the dyepot. All colors were obtained using various food coloring. The sock blank is doubled DK sock yarn loosely crocheted, and will became matching socks for Wool-aid. #handdyed 🧶 #yarn #sockblank