The sock yarn of your dreams - this yarn is incredibly soft and sooo cozy! This set comprises two identical balls of Shaniko merino fingering, 228 yards each to make the perfect matched gradient socks. These are so scrumptious we bet you can't stop at one pair!
Fiber: Three ply 100% US Shaniko mulesing-free superwash Merino
Ball Size: 2x50g/1.76 oz - 416 meters/456 yards (total)
Yarn Weight: Fingering Gauge: 28 sts/36 rows over 4” on US3 (3.25mm) needles.
About Freia Fine Handpaint Yarns
Back in 2003 I started Knitwhits, a knitting pattern and kit company offering small accessories and patterns for the knitting market. Six years later I veered towards designing ready-to-wear using self-striping yarns. It became increasingly apparent that though there were some gorgeous self-striping yarns on the market, there were elements still missing. It is those missing elements that I bring to Freia Handpaint Yarns.
In 2010 I developed gradient yarns - a color method unlike any multi-colored yarn that existed before, beginning one of the most marked and copied trends to hit the yarn market of the decade. I straddle the line somewhere between an indie dyer and a large yarn company, providing a unique hand-dyed yarn, but at a scale big enough to cater to Local Yarn Stores globally. The custom-spun fiber I use is soft and lofty (or smooshy as I prefer to call it). It has a wonderful rustic character to it, without the itch. The Ombré yarns have gorgeous extra long gradients – that cannot be replicated in mass production – with a lush depth of color only we can bring as hand dyers. We also offer self-striping and semi-solids to give a knitter enough flexibility to combine all sorts of colors in a project in a base to match the other yarns we supply. All our fibers are sourced in the US and dyed at our studio in North Adams, MA.
